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Zimbabwe Warriors improve in rankings
15 Feb 2012 at 08:52hrs | Views
Zimbabwe Warriors have improved three places to number 99 in the latest Fifa world rankings released on Wednesday.
The Warriors are also down to number 10 in the African rankings as Zambia power into the top four.
In the January release, the Warriors had slipped four places to 102 on the global list and 25th on the continental list.
The Zimbabwe Warriors face Burundi who are ranked 143 in the world and 41 in Africa on 29th February 2012.
There has been much change in the African Top 10 following the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations recently completed in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Zambia, Mali, Gabon Libya and Tunisia, have all improved their positions on the back of the Nations Cup.
But out of the top 10 go Egypt, Cameroon and Senegal, with the latter losing all three of their games at the continental showpiece and dropping from number five to number 16.
Ivory Coast have retained their position at the top of the African list of their final showing in Gabon, followed by Ghana, Algeria and then newly-crowned African champions Zambia.
Mali are fifth, with Gabon, Libya, Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa rounding out the top 10.
World champions Spain remain the top side in the global list, but Germany have moved past Netherlands into second. Uruguay are fourth, England fifth, but Portugal have moved past Brazil into sixth place. Italy have also leap-frogged Croatia for eighth, while Denmark move into the top 10 at the expense of Argentina.
The Warriors are also down to number 10 in the African rankings as Zambia power into the top four.
In the January release, the Warriors had slipped four places to 102 on the global list and 25th on the continental list.
The Zimbabwe Warriors face Burundi who are ranked 143 in the world and 41 in Africa on 29th February 2012.
There has been much change in the African Top 10 following the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations recently completed in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Zambia, Mali, Gabon Libya and Tunisia, have all improved their positions on the back of the Nations Cup.
But out of the top 10 go Egypt, Cameroon and Senegal, with the latter losing all three of their games at the continental showpiece and dropping from number five to number 16.
Ivory Coast have retained their position at the top of the African list of their final showing in Gabon, followed by Ghana, Algeria and then newly-crowned African champions Zambia.
Mali are fifth, with Gabon, Libya, Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa rounding out the top 10.
World champions Spain remain the top side in the global list, but Germany have moved past Netherlands into second. Uruguay are fourth, England fifth, but Portugal have moved past Brazil into sixth place. Italy have also leap-frogged Croatia for eighth, while Denmark move into the top 10 at the expense of Argentina.
Source - Byo24Sports
