Nigeria’s Beach Eagles move up 10 places to 20th in latest World ranking

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Nigeria’s beach soccer national team have moved up 10 places to the 20th position in the overall World ranking released by the Beach Soccer World Wide for December 2016.

The Supersand Eagles who were previously ranked 30th in the World rose up thanks to their second place finish at the 2016 African Beach Soccer Cup of Nations in Lagos which qualified them to the 2017 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup in the Bahamas.

Audu Adamu’s men with 756 points are now third in Africa but behind Egypt on 16th position with 908 points dropping to second spot while new African champions Senegal are currently African best with 1028 points in 12th place.

Morocco moved up five places to 21st place in the World, Madagascar rose up seven spots to 23rd postion while Cote d’Ivoire climbed up a spot to 28th place occupying the fourth to sixth positions respectively in Africa.

Ghana with 278 points moving up five places to 45th spot in the World followed by Libya with 202 points rising up 13 places to 52nd position in completing Africa’s top eight.

In the world, Portugal ended up emerging the World best team for 2016 ahead of Russia, Brazil, Italy, Iran, Switzerland, Tahiti, Japan, Paraguary and Spain completing the top ten places.

The next World ranking will be published in January, 2017.

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