{"id":36793,"date":"2018-08-17T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36793"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:00:04","slug":"france-on-top-of-fifas-new-formula-and-latest-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/france-on-top-of-fifas-new-formula-and-latest-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"France on top of FIFA’s new formula and latest rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIFA have released the The first set of rankings released under Fifa’s new formula that “relies on adding\/subtracting points won or lost for a game to\/from the previous point totals rather than averaging game points over a given time period”.The latest world rankings has lots of movement.<\/p>\n

France on top of the world.<\/strong><\/em> Didier Deschamps’ team who claimed their country’s second world title in Moscow last month and move up six places to the top of the pile.<\/p>\n

\"\"Germany have been hit hard by this \u2013 the deposed world champions toppling from first to 15th after their group-stage exit at Russia 2018, while Lionel Messi and Argentina also drop out of the top 10 with a fall of six places to 11th.<\/p>\n

Croatia’s surprise run to the final made them the biggest movers \u2013 up 16 to fourth, while beaten semi-finalists England climb from 12th to sixth. Uruguay are into the top 10, but eight of those sides are European.<\/p>\n

In Africa<\/em> <\/strong>Tunisia remained the top African team despite dropping three spots in 24th position, but now share their position with Senegal, who climbed three places.<\/p>\n

Congo DR are the third-highest ranked African side and sit in 37th position overall. Ghana, Morocco and Cameroon follow in 45th, 46th and 47th respectively, while Nigeria dropped to 49th spot.<\/p>\n

Burkina Faso stayed unmoved in 52nd rank, while Mali, in 63rd position, and Cape Verde, one below, complete Africa\u2019s current top ten.<\/p>\n

\"\"African giants Egypt, who took part in their first FIFA World Cup since 1990 but widely disappointed, dropped a massive 20 positions \u2013 the most among all nations world-wide \u2013 and now only appear in 65th spot.<\/p>\n

Uganda stays 82nd\u00a0in the world and 17th\u00a0in Africa, Tanzania are 140th\u00a0in the world and 39th\u00a0on the continent.<\/p>\n

Neighbors Kenya also stay put at 112nd in the world and 27th\u00a0in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIFA have released the The first set of rankings released under Fifa’s new formula that “relies on adding\/subtracting points won or lost for a game to\/from the previous point totals rather than averaging game points over a given time period”.The latest world rankings has lots of movement. France on top of the world. Didier Deschamps’ team who claimed their country’s second world title in Moscow last month and move up six places to the top of the pile. Germany have been hit hard by this \u2013 the deposed world champions toppling from first to 15th after their group-stage exit at Russia 2018, while Lionel Messi and Argentina also drop out of the top 10 with a fall of six places […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":36796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}