Excellent news for Nigerian soccer followers! The Tremendous Falcons are sticking to their spot, staying put at thirty sixth on this planet within the latest FIFA ladies’s rankings that got here out on Thursday.
Even higher, they’re nonetheless the undisputed queens of African soccer!However whereas Nigeria’s holding regular, issues are getting fairly spicy on the very prime of the worldwide rankings. The USA, normally untouchable, are actually feeling the warmth from Spain (now 2nd) and Germany (third). Do not forget that 2-1 house loss to Brazil (who jumped up 4 spots to 4th) in April? That undoubtedly put Emma Hayes’ star-studded American group on discover.
Spain and Germany, in the meantime, haven’t misplaced a beat for the reason that final replace. England slipped a bit however remains to be clinging to fifth, proper above Sweden.It appears to be like like dealing with these South American groups has additionally brought on some complications for Canada and Japan, who are actually sitting a bit decrease.
We’ll have to attend till August 7, 2025, for the subsequent huge FIFA rating reveal.Within the meantime, our Falcons are actually placing within the work! Simply final Tuesday, they placed on a present in Abeokuta, Ogun State, beating Cameroon 2-0 in a pleasant match. Rasheedat Ajibade was on hearth, bagging each objectives within the first half for Coach Justin Madugu’s squad.
And the prep continues, with one other pleasant in opposition to Portugal lined up for Monday, June 23. All of that is, in fact, getting them able to dominate at this yr’s Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), the place they’ll be battling Algeria, Tunisia, and Botswana of their group. Go Falcons!
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