{"id":234627,"date":"2026-06-22T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234627"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:54:42","slug":"final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234627","title":{"rendered":"Final pre-WAFCON FIFA ranking: Nigeria stay Africa\u2019s best as Morocco, Zambia slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons will head into the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) as Africa\u2019s highest-ranked team, Soccernet.ng reports. This is after the reigning African champions retained their position in the latest FIFA Women\u2019s World Ranking, the final update released before the continental tournament. The defending WAFCON champions remain 36th in the world and [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2026\/06\/wafcon-nigeria-falcons-morocco-zambia.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons will head into the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip.jpeg",860,477,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip-300x166.jpeg",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip-768x426.jpeg",640,355,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip.jpeg",640,355,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip.jpeg",860,477,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip.jpeg",860,477,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip.jpeg",860,477,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip-825x477.jpeg",825,477,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234627-final-pre-wafcon-fifa-ranking-nigeria-stay-africas-best-as-morocco-zambia-slip-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}