The Zambia national team has shown some recovery on the FIFA ladder gaining three places to rank 71st from last month’s 74th position.
Coming from a 2 – 1 win over lower ranked Kenya and a draw with Gabon who are ahead on the ranking, Zambia powered past South Africa, Uganda and Burkina Faso to move into 16th position in Africa.
The latest rankings have arrested a free fall by the Chipolopolo whose only other upward movement was in April.
Zambia this month play Egypt (ranked 9th in Africa) in a game that will weigh towards next month’s rankings.
Africa Top 20 – World Ranking is in Brackets.
1[19] Algeria; 2[21] Côte d’Ivoire; 3[25] Ghana; 4[36] Tunisia; 5[38] Senegal; 6[41] Cape Verde Islands; 7[48] Cameroon; 8[49] Congo; 9[51] Egypt; 10[52] Nigeria; 11[55] Guinea; 12[60] Congo DR; 13[62] Mali; 14[65] Gabon; 15[67] Equatorial Guinea; 16[71] Zambia; 17[73] South Africa; 18[75] Uganda; 19[74] Burkina Faso; 20[79] Togo
You play Egypt and call small boys. We will be wired. Egypt is now the strongest team in africa with sallah and karabah you cannot take them likely. We needed Mayuka, fwayo,mbola, Kangwa, kabaso and other serious boys to fight those Arabs. Gabon assembled a weak team with locals and got away with a draw you think Egypt will toy with zambia. Nigeria will not even qualify for afcon because of those Arabs. That is how strong they are now.
That feels great to improve on fifa rankings, it really counts though… As for u bloggers who always opposes any team selection must know that there’s no coach who will sutisfy evelyone in his plyr selection e.g the plyr u like may not be in my favour and that’s the way it is.
everyone
Zambia is now wallowing in the bottom and not even in the top ten.Things are not okay with our football.
still work to be done…we can even go higher
Are we happy with 71st position? This is sad. To me this is no improvement. We should be within the first 5 in Africa. We need to be competitive like Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Tunisia and not Gambia, Mauritius, Togo. NO COSAFA IN THE FIRST 10? This is sad indeed.
Our team selection is quetionable and uncompetitive.We should introduce a ‘all stars vs the rest’ games. Faz can choose the ‘stars ‘ and fans and coaches can choose the’rest ‘.
this is ok…
Lets wait and see
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The list is dominated by the West Africans. The first 5 in Africa consists of Three from the West. More than 50% of the first 20 are from the West. How many are from Cosafa? We are nowhere . Let us revamp the FA.
No more politics, please . See it as it is. Not from a political affiliation . THANK YOU ALL
Don’t get TOO worried with rankings .
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As for me, I can’t expect zambia to be amoung the top 5 in africa without showing results for it recently, e.g we hardly organize friendlies, not to talk about strong teams, we hardly qualified in the past 2 afcons and failed to go beyond group stage etc, while those in top 5 continues to be semi/finalists How do u expect our team to be amoung them?
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FT: FC URAL 1-1 KRYLYA SOVETOV. AND FC URAL CAPTAIN CHISAMBADINHO PLAYED 90 MNTS AND HE WAS ON SCORE SHEET.
Am happy for Chisamba & Nsuzu
@ZAMFOOT::::: How long will this our poor ranking continue to be “BREAKNG NEWS”, Zamfoot?
Please come again, Zamfoot.