Nigeria move up in FIFA Rankings
African champions Nigeria have moved up three places to 33 in the latest world rankings released Thursday by FIFA.
However, Nigeria despite the move are still no 4 in the Africa ranking behind Algeria(3rd) who dropped three places, Ghana (2nd), who moved up one place and Cote d’Ivoire (1st), who have moved up on a place to 17th in the world.
The October ranking saw the Eagles garner 724 points which is an improvement from the 707 points of the September rankings.
They are expected to improve their rankings by next month when they host Ethiopia in a World Cup playoff return leg in Calabar.
The super Eagles did themselves good with the 2 1 victory they recorded against the Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia last weekend as a draw or lose would have seen them drop down on the Fifa ranking.
It is however believed that the Fifa Coca Cola ranking will be used to seed teams during the world cup fixtures in Brazil 2014.
Spain remain No 1 in the world with Argentina, Germany, Italy, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay, Brazil, Netherlands and Croatia completing the top 10 in the world
AFRICA’S TOP 20:
17 1 Côte d’Ivoire
23 2 Ghana
32 3 Algeria
33 4 Nigeria
41 5 Mali
42 6 Cape Verde Islands
47 7 Tunisia
51 8 Egypt
52 9 Burkina Faso
59 10 Cameroon
61 11 Libya
61 12 South Africa
64 13 Senegal
67 14 Zambia
68 15 Guinea
73 16 Sierra Leone
75 17 Togo
77 18 Morocco
84 19 Gabon
85 20 Uganda
African China, Nigga Raw, others storm
Ngor Okpala for Jude Okere’s Champions League
This year’s Ngorokpala annual Football Champions League will today commence with a musical concert to give the players and the good people of Ngorokpala a well-deserved musical pleasure as African China and Nigger Raw storms the venue with a host of other artists.
Reports reaching Trumpeta Sports desk indicates that the musical concert will hold today as the donor Hon John Jude Okere an illustrious son of Ngoropkala wants his people to be in festive mood before the competition kicks-off properly on Sunday October 20 at Ngorokpala high School, Umuneke.
According to the Local Organizing Committee chairman, Mr Adikwuru Tochukwu, 20 teams from the 20 Autonomous Communities will take part in this year’s competition that will be played in five designated centers, Okpala Secondary School Field and the Central School fields in Umundoche, Umuohiagu, Ntu and Nguru simultaneously.
Tochukwu further revealed that in his usual manner of spicing up the competition among the teams, Hon Okere has mapped out a huge amount as prize money for the first, second and third place winners. Winner of the Giant Trophy will in addition take home the sum of N500, 000 while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams will also go home with N120, 000 and N70, 000 respectively.
He however stated that there will also be individual prizes for the most valuable player, best goalkeeper, defender as well as most disciplined team (Fair play team).
The competition is an annual event organized by Hon Okere to help empower the youths of Ngorokpala LGA and also help to fish out talents that will one day become stars in the future as well as help curb social vices and youth restiveness in our Society.
The tournament started in 2011 with Imerienwe Autonomous Community winning the maiden edition while Eziama won the last edition in 2012 and hopes to defend their trophy this year when the final will be played by December 15.
NPFL WEEK 38 GAMES (20/10/13)
Nasarawa — Heartland
Lobi Stars — Kano Pillars
Dolphins — Wikki Tourist
Gombe Utd — Bayelsa Utd
Kwara Utd — 3SC
Wolves — ABS fc
Nembe City — Sunshine
Enyimba — Sharks fc
Rangers — El Kanemi
WEEK 37 RESULTS (16/10/13)
Heartland 2 1 Rangers
Sharks fc 3 1 Nasarawa Utd
Sunshine 2 0 Enyimba
ABS fc 6 1 Nembe City
3SC 2 0 Wolves
Akwa Utd 3 0 Kaduna Utd
Wikki T. 2 0 Gombe Utd
Kano Pillars 1 0 Dolphins
El Kanemi 1 0 Lobi Stars
Bayelsa Utd 2 1 Kwara Utd
EPL WEEK 8 GAMES (19/10/13)
Newcastle — Liverpool @ 12.45pm
Arsenal — Norwich @ 3pm
Chelsea — Cardiff City @ 3pm
Everton — Hull City @ 3pm
Man Utd — Southampton @ 3pm
Stoke City — West Brom @ 3pm
Swansea — Sunderland @ 3pm
West Ham — Man City @ 3pm
20/10/13
Aston Villa — Tottenham
NPFL TABLE AS AT WEEK 37
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Pillars 37 20 3 14 46 38 8 63
2 Bayelsa Utd 37 19 4 14 42 38 4 61
3 El Kanemi 37 18 6 13 43 32 11 60
4 Enyimba 37 17 8 12 31 19 12 59
5 Rangers 37 17 4 16 46 37 9 55
6 Sharks fc 37 15 8 14 35 31 4 53
7 Warri Wolves 37 14 10 13 41 33 8 52
8 Heartland 37 16 4 17 39 31 8 52
16 Nasarawa Utd 37 14 7 16 36 42 -6 49
17 Lobi Stars 37 14 7 16 33 40 -7 49
18 ABS fc 37 14 7 16 34 42 -8 49
19 Nembe City 37 15 4 18 29 47 -18 49
20 3SC 37 13 7 17 41 44 -3 46
