Connect with us

Governing Bodies

NIGERIA STATIC AS BELGIUM RETAINS FIFA TEAM OF THE YEAR

Published

on

Nigeria’s national football team, Super Eagles, remain on the same spot of 31st position as FIFA rolls out its end of the year statistics.

However, Belgium are again crowned  Team of the Year for the second straight time after retaining top spot ahead of world champions France in the latest world rankings released this Thursday.

Belgium, who finished third in the World Cup in Russia last year, won all 10 of their competitive matches in 2019.

England moved up a spot to fourth place below Brazil, while Uruguay are fifth.

Argentina (ninth) and Colombia (10th) entered the top 10 this year displacing Switzerland (12th) and Denmark (16th).

Qatar, who will host the 2022 World Cup, were the biggest movers in a year in which they won the AFC Asian Cup, moving 38 places to sit 55th after gaining 138 points.

Advertisement

Algeria (35th) were close behind moving up 32 spots while Japan (28th) climbed 22 places this year.

 

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

Continue Reading
Advertisement