Sports News of Thursday, 13 March 2014

Source: GFA

Mixed results for Black Stars in FIFA rankings

The month of March produces mixed results for Ghana on the ranking table as the Black Stars gained and lost ground in the world and continental logs.

Ghana has moved two places up the FIFA world ranking table released on Thursday.

The Black Stars, despite losing 1-0 to Montenegro in a friendly recently are now positioned 35th in the overall ranking.

Ghana's point build up, previously at 733 is now 729 points.

In Africa, the Black Stars have slipped one place below to fifth from the previous position of fourth on the continental ranking table. Ivory Coast are still in the lead followed by Algeria, Egypt and Cape Verde in that order.

World champions, Spain are still in the lead followed by Germany with Argentina in third.

The March edition of the rankings took into account a total of 67 matches of which 57 were friendlies. The other ten games were AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.