{"id":186986,"date":"2024-12-21T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-make-historic-rise-in-fifa-ranking\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:30:38","slug":"angola-make-historic-rise-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-make-historic-rise-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Make Historic Rise in FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Luanda \u2014 Angola end the 2024 FIFA World Ranking in a historic position, occupying 85th place with 1,296 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In twelve months, Angola have climbed 32 places, making them the team with the greatest progress, according to FIFA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This ranking puts Angola in the top 100 in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a year in which they lost only one official match, when they were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, the country started the ranking at 117 and has now reached&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola end the 2024 FIFA World Ranking in a historic position, occupying 85th place with 1,296 points. In twelve months, Angola have climbed 32 places, making them the team with the greatest progress, according to FIFA. This ranking puts Angola in the top 100 in the world. In a year in which they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,9109,13203,257,8341,10256,254],"class_list":["post-186986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-fifa","tag-historic","tag-news","tag-ranking","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}