Kenya Football .:. Story - Kenya Drops To 112 As Egypt Romps Into The Top Ten

Kenya has dropped a massive slots to land at a miserable Position 112 in the just released FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings.

This has been occasioned due to the fact that Kenya has been playing meaningless friendlies with bogus teams like Kuwait and Yemen, friendlies which have only been used to make clowns running the so-called FKL richer.

In between Mohammed Hatimy and Titus Kasuve, they have both pocketed USD 10,000 in appearance fees offered to them by the Dubai-based match organizing agency. As the two wankers (Kasuve and Hatimy) auction Kenyan Football, the debate as to why Mariga failed to land a work-permit due to our low ranking rages on.

The Africa Cup of Nations has had a major impact on the first FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of the year. While Spain continue to occupy top spot ahead of Brazil and the Netherlands, Egypt managed to climb 14 ranks to tenth place after they successfully defended their title at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.

This is not only Egypt's highest-ever position in the ranking, but also the second-highest of any African team since the introduction of the ranking. They have only been bettered by Nigeria, who reached fifth place in April 1994. But other African teams also benefited from their performances in Angola.

(Pictured: Harambee Stars training at the Cairo International Stadium in preparation for a friendly match between Egypt in January 2009. As the two wankers auction the national team to mediocre states, Kenya's ranking is going to the dogs).

In the upper echelons of the ranking, semi-finalists Nigeria (15th, up 7) and finalists Ghana (27th, up 7) made considerable strides. Further down the ranking, Zambia (73rd, up 11) and Malawi (82nd, up 17) also made good progress.

Ahead of the World Cup in South Africa, an analysis of the strengths of each of the eight groups will doubtless prove interesting. In general, it is noteworthy that Group G is the only one to have two teams from the top ten (Brazil and Portugal), while Italy are the only representatives from the top 20 in Group F.

Bearing in mind that only two teams from each group will go on to the round of 16, the "tightness" of the groups and the gap between the second and third team could prove particularly
significant. With this in mind, two groups promise to be particularly exciting: there are very few points separating Mexico and Uruguay in Group A and Chile and Switzerland in Group H.

A total of 82 international "A" matches were taken into account for this edition of the ranking, 15 of which were played in 2009 (total of 849 "A" matches played in 2009).

In addition to the 29 matches played in the Africa Cup of Nations, 11 continental qualifying matches and 42 friendlies were played.

Summary

· Leader Spain
(unchanged)

· Moves into top ten Egypt (10th, up 14)

· Moves out of top ten Croatia (11th, down 1)

· Matches played in total 82 (15 of which in
2009)

· Most matches played Egypt (8 matches)

· Biggest move by points Egypt (up 237 points)

· Biggest move by ranks Yemen (up 25)

· Biggest drop by points Cameroon (down 121
points)

· Biggest drop by ranks Nicaragua (down 29)

· Newly-ranked teams none

· Teams that are no longer ranked none

· Inactive teams (not ranked) São Tomé e Príncipe

The February edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 3
March 2010.