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Sierra Leone moves down to 125 FIFA ranking!

Sierra Leone moves down to 125 FIFA ranking!

Sierra Leone has moved down three places in latest FIFA World Rankings.  Leone Stars went down three places in today’s FIFA world ranking release.  They climbed ten places in the previous ranking table released October 20 to their highest position in recent years.

This is a surprise to many soccer fans despite Sierra Leone recent improvement in the Afcon qualifiers were they held the African Champions in Cairo and playing 0-0 with 2010 World Cup host South Africa in Freetown.

Though many believe their drop in the world ranking is because they failed to defeat South Africa at home in September this year.

Meanwhile, two of their opponents in Group G in 2012 Afcon qualifiers, South Africa is up again two places to 50 in the world 11th in Africa while Egypt continues to head the African list, despite their shock defeat to Niger recently, followed by Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Algeria.

Spain remains the top side in the worldwide list, followed by Netherlands, Brazil, Germany and Argentina.

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