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Scorpions take Gambia dPown in world football ratings
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Football’s
world governing body, FIFA, has placed Gambia at 128th position in a
July 4 global football ranking, compared to 108th in last month’s
ratings – dropping 20 places down the lather.
The
country is also ranked 40 in Africa, dropping 14 places from the June placing
of 26th position, with overall points scored dropping from 320 to
251 points.
The
poor ranking followed dismal performances by the national team, the scorpions,
who drew 1-1 at home to Morocco in a 2014 world cup qualifier on June 2, but
went on to lose 2-1 away to Tanzania in the same competition a week later.
The
Scorpions were also humiliated and ousted in a 4-1 away defeat to Algeria
during the June 15 return leg of the preliminary stages of the South Africa
2013 Nations Cup qualifiers.
Gambia
did found herself fixed at one place in a May 9 global and regional football
ranking.
The
country was stuck at 113th place in the world and 30th
place in Africa and maintaining the same score, 292 points – the same positions
and points it had in April 2012.
The
stuck was blamed on the poor performance or inactivity of the national team.
Like a country still on its fledgling football state, the points earned in
April and May this year were enough to get the whole country stuck in global
and continental football.
The
next monthly FIFA/Cocoa Cola football ratings will be published on August 8,
2012.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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