Ghana ranked Africa's second best team by FIFA despite AFCON setback
Posted On Thursday, 14th February 2013
The Black Stars are second in Africa according to the FIFA ranking
Ghana are the second best team in Africa despite finishing fourth at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, world governing body Fifa has confirmed.
According to the latest Fifa ranking released on Thursday Ghana is among the 20 best sides in the world.
The Black Stars are also 19th ranked nation in the world for the month of February, one place behind Brazil.
Nigeria won their first Nations Cup trophy in 19 years to climb 22 places to 30th-their best ranking since August 2010.
Losing finalists Burkina Faso moved up a massive 37 places to 55th.
Ivory Coast despite bowing out at the quarter-final stage is Africa best team.
The Elephants have also achieved their best-ever world ranking (12th position).
Spain continue to reign supreme ahead of Germany and Argentina. England moved to fourth place after their home win over Brazil.
The February edition of the ranking is dominated by the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa and the CONCACAF qualifying matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.
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without any dime to show…lol!
i think this is the problem ryt there, fifa’s nonsense making us think we’re better when we’re not.
Before we lost to Mali we had not lost a game in open play for our last 10 or so games!!!
IDIOT! your ignorance has betrayed you. Did we not LOOSE to zambia before winning twice against malawi before departing for Afcon? heck even south korea beat us 2:1 before all that.
and we were lucky to get a late draw when China were running away with a win until Richmond Yiadom came to save our face barely a minute to full time. RBY scored again in our pretournament friendly but we played clottey at Afcon when RBY had been declared fit before the Burkina game. Your bigotry and racism is making you blind. Ghanaman. the stench of bribery and corruption and incompetence is everywhere. just smell it!
I agree that clottey must never play for the Black stars again. RBY was not fully fit and no need to ruin his career by having him play half fit!
We did not play SOuth Korea moron…
That FIFA rankings do not mean anything. It’s solely based on goals a team has scored. It goes in the descending order, from the highest goals scored team to the lowest.
Its a useless ranking that has nothing to do with the strength of a team. As we all saw during the AFCON, Burkina Faso #55 beat Ghana #19.
GSN just find something better to do with your time.
You are a really big idiot… It is based on performance over the last 4 or so years… Burkina did not beat us, they drew us. What about Ivory Coast ranking of 12??What have they done in the world cup and African cup to get such a high ranking? You are a typical Ghanaman kunta kinte mentality fool who can’t see anything good in your country so, look only for negatives! Fire burn you devil!!!
If you look at the world cup and last 2 African cups we deserve a higher ranking
World Cup: Quarter Final
African cup: Semi Final
African cup: Semi Final
Find me an African team that has achieved this?
You won’t find them!!
then we should be Africa’s best right? but we are not so its not base on this, Ivory coast shouldnt be the number one becuz they havent achieve what u think is the criteria. Where is Egypt if this is it?
Ivory Coast does not lose many games while we lose here and there. Remember when Ivory Coast lost to Zambia it was in penalties. That counts as DRAW not a complete loss in the ranking.
Egypt
World Cup: did not qualify
African cup: did not qualify
African cup: did not qualify
That is their last 3 tournaments
All RUBISH!!!!
Thank you Ghanaman, at least we still have young Ghanaians who see positives out of situations. Its really sad to hear Ghanaians who no nothing about their own country spew unpleasnant nothings about this progressive country.Even Nigerians whose team have achieved little in recent times have found a voice. Fire burn y’all who just criticize, you are no better than the Black Star players who played without conviction. A real supporter is the one who sticks with his team esp. in difficult times like this. Fuck y’all,still BLACK STARS FOR LIFE!!!
Ghana will drop down month after month especially struggling @ d group stage of d worldcup qualifiers,sack appiah b4 it will be too late,ghana stars is nt shinning & it is becomin darker as time goes on
After the WCQ groups, if we happen to top it. we then go to play a 2nation home and away tie. If anybody thinks A.A can carry us through then i say to you “DUE OO DUE”! in advance.
We are the worst team in africa under AA.We will be number one in africa under a competent coach.
Some people are really rubber stamps who say YES! YES! To any nonsense! The Black stars are really dark as at now. Accept so that positive moves can be made. Stop misleading. Ghana Doesn’t deserve that comedy FIFA ranking! Period!!!!!
Maybe you are an APE!!!
Let’s appreciate the BlackStars for this awesome achievement, cos FIFA just doesn’t do the ranking without any basis. It is based on the number of tournaments a country participates, the number of wins/loses and what not. Do the BlackStars have to win every tournament at all cost? We need to change that mentality. One day I believe we’ll get the perfect squad like that of Spain or 98 France or 2002 brazil etc and we’ll win tournaments. For now let’s be content with this impressive FIFA ranking of ours. Thanks!
Some of you are mere fools who dont appretiate what they have till they lose it.
Especially you!!
watch this video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2VRPewgrVJs
uhuh
now watch this SEMIFINAL performance of Ghana against Zambia under plavi. we only lost by hardluck. we even had a penalty we wasted.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lCiwQpwz0F8
compare it to this year you blind bigots. are we going backwards or forwards with this obonfo assistant apprentice coach.
We need a competent coach ASAP because we have No time to waste. otherwise reality is No worldcup for us.
sorry I meant QUATER FINALS
My dear Ghanaians, please take no notice of @STUPID GHANAIAN cos just like his name suggests, he is s****d……well by my judgements he is also a zambian, and a jealous one as such so why not ignore it…erm..him and move on with constructive suggestions to build up our beloved black stars…..I’m particularly happy about the way we are ranked 2nd but we the people of this great nation see it as our worst performance, thereby making other nations(zambia especially) ridicule us, whilst they rot ans stink below as…consistency is found in our camp but like we’ve been trained to have a winning spirit,n we are and can’t be content with 3rd and 4th positions always, so MR.Man(I.e AA) man up and move forward cos our verbal guns are held behind your head, execution style, a word to the wise…
Your mother’s twe
did i jux read right, that we should appreciate our teams achievement as africans first?…. We could be the 10th and win the afcon and i’ll be happy, what’s wrong with u people, fifa rankings? That only blinds us and makes us think we’re good but we’re not. Burkina did not only outplay us they were cheated out of a clear win. We’re very bad as a team now, so fuq the fifa ranking.
Like when they pushed Badu for their first goal??
@KIMCO, clearly I see english isn’t your 1st language so I think I’ll have to go local on you a lil bit,preferably twi…S3 OBI KAS3(if someone says) “I’m particularly happy about the way we are ranked 2nd but we the people of this great nation see it as our worst performance…” NYA ME P3 AKYER3 NE S3 (what I’m tryin to say is) NANS3N Y3 K) AFCON AH 3rd NE 4th NA Y3 DU (of late, when we go to the afcon we reach the 3rd and 4th stages) 3NY3 KORAA(this is very appalling) ENTI (so), FIFA FO) ARANKI Y3N 2nd 3w) AFRICA AH (if FiFA has ranked us as the a2nd best in africa,) M’ANI AGYE S3 GHANAFO) TUMI HU S3 Y3N MM)DEN B) 3NS) ANI KORAA (I’m HAPPY that Ghanaians can see that it still is our WORST PERFORMANCE) WATE?!!!(Do you understand?)….guys, sorry about that but I can see that KIMCO is a trigger happy guy who doesn’t analyze words critically….)NY3 BADWENBA, ENTI ONTUMI NSANE NYANSA P) NO!!!
GHANA IS AND WILL EVER REMAIN AFRICAN’S BEST FOOTBALLING NATION NO MATTER WIN OR LOST.THE QUALITY IS THERE.LOOK AT THE WAY THE GUYS PLAY ,IT’S SIMPLY AFRICAN BRAZIL KIND OF TEAM.MANAGEMENT IS ONLY FUCKING UP THINGS BUT NO COUNTRY IN AFRICA AND I REPEAT NO COUNTRY IN AFRICA CAN OVER TAKE GHANA.NEVER.THOSE ZAMBIANS CAN HUNG THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST A JOKE IN TERMS OF FOOTBALL.
hello ghanians, why are you insulting one another.i am a nigerian.in football there is good reign days. And the bad ones that linger in pain when you remember.nigeria was just fortunate to bring themselves together to find a perfect rtymes. Where is Almighty brazil now,italy, netherland,egypt,morocco, spain had been on developing process and they improve their league.so it pays now.what england,germany etc. Ghana will stil bounce back. I have a dream, that nigeria will world cup at senior levy..pray as patrotic ghana. Nigeria has the best player in the world you, will see for yourself. +2347034489329