Zambia has dropped five places on the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday morning.
The African champions slipped from last month’s position 34 to 39 although they have maintained 5th place on the continent.
Prior to the January ranking, Zambia had lost to Angola and Tanzania while forcing draws against Morocco and Norway in the 2013 Africa Cup warm-up matches.
On the continental chart, Zambia is behind Cote d’vore, Algeria,Mali and Ghana
Chipolopolo the greatest team in the world rankings dont matter.
White folks are a piece of work.
I like that and I tend to think so!
Useless FIFA rankings, when we win, rankings goes to sleep, when we lose, they become active.
CHIPOLOPOLO WON AFCON WHEN IT WAS RANKED 84TH ,THIS MEANS RANKING IS NOT AN ISSUE ,DONT BE DISCOURAGE BOYS!
Clearly you do not know the importance of preparations… how many competitive friendlies against full strength teams have you had since AFCON 2012? Only Morocco and Norway string to mind and Norway wasn’t even a full squad…
JAY JAY, you sound like you don’t know f/ball my br. Tanzania is strong. Ask Nigeria. Egypt, Senegal and Cameroon are not there.
Are FiIFA Rankings like Stockmarkets? It is like the Rankings are fluctuating all the time like Stockmarkets!
it is their opinion. so let us just gone on and defend our cup. go go chipolopolo
stinking rankings fractuating like our meali meal prices.yabaaa.perhaps it will be better if FIFA can rebase us.
Fractuating?? Lol
lol…. you cracked me man
Kant neva
We lost silly games on Fifa recognised days. To tanzania, Malawi and also lost to Uganda 1 – 0. we havent picked up points towards consolidating our ranking thats the results.
what do FIFA rankings and Joseph Sepp Blatter have in common? You can’t trust them both.
Yet you can trust FAZ and CAF.
Wake up!!
What do FIFA rankings and the up coming AFCON in South Africa have in common? Impending embarassing & disastrous exit for the defending champions!!
I hate to say this but its the naked truth
@ Nshi sunda; sorry for your comment. Which team do you think is strongest there?
Tukawina bane we will be on top of group C and meet Togo.
Well this is what happens when football in Zambia is run by empty suits; who do not take preparations seriously….its sheer hypocrisy to sneer at the FIFA ranking table when you have LAMENTABLY FAILED to win a single game. Kudos to Football Associations of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali and Algeria for organising competitive games for their respective teams….I guess proof will be in the pudding until we meet at AFCON.
Jay Jay,…you are absolute right! Whe we won the Africa cup and our FIFA ranking tremendously went up we applauded FIFA and infact some even thought FIFA didnt do much for our “big win.” Now after after recording a string of loses with our division three french league coach, a mentally and technically challenged person without a clue of how and what it takes to have a winning combination, we still expected to be at the same position or even better on the FIFA ranking? Hypocriy indeed.
We must stop blaming FIFA, wipe our crocodile tears, accept our failures and then take steps to do better and avoid a repeat of such disappointing results otherwise we will keep slidding on FIFA ranking. Lets learn from the consistence of countries like Spain.
Exactly our fans are like 4 year children they want to hear only one side of the story…like father Christmas will bring them presents on 25th Dec!
We played Ghana there and here. Players from different clubs in Europe use different formations of play. Zambians know one another better.
FIFA rankings is nothing but a piece of rubbish. after wining the cup we were number 4 in Africa and 34 in the world in-steady of number one or two in Africa and between 15-20 in the world. Whether better rankings or worst tulebawina ba mukuta even this time around, please boyz don’t be discouraged by this stage managed rankings.
Do you even understand how it works??? If there is one organisation guilty here its FAZ for playing weak lowly ranked teams on FIFA sanctioned dates…avoid the bar talk and tackle issues objectively.
Wake up!!
We shouldnt have lost
THESE FIFA RANKINGS ARE DONE IN THE BEDROOM OF FIFA AND NO ONE HAS A SAY AS TO WHAT CRITERIA IS USED IN RANKING THESE TEAMS
WITH OR WITHOUT THESE USELESS FIFA RANKS THE GAME OF SOCCER IS WON IN THE PITCH, SO BA FIFA DON’T CIRCULATE YOUR STUPID OPINONS AS TRUE RANKINGS NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE IN YOUR USELESS RANKINGS. BLATTER JUST PUBLISH THE CORRUPTION RANKINGS AT FIFA COZ THAT’S WHAT YOU CAN DO BEST. MEANWHILE TO HELL WITH YOUR RANKINGS.
How about the corruption in FAZ? How do you example the replica shirts being disowned by Nike official shirt sponsors?
*explain
Its no surprise FAZ was selling gullible fans cheap poorly designed replica skippers without Nike official logos at hideous premium prices as you believe everything that comes out their mouths. Kudos to Nike for disowning the shirts…
Wake up!!
Which team are you in support of friend?
Jay Jay if there is any person to wake up it is you, how do you explain a situation where ALGERIA did not play competitive matches but they are better than Zambia in the so called FIFA rankings? Can you also tell us how they do it,so that we know what you call ‘objectivity’. The point we are making here is that, the all ranking system is a trash period.
Ba mwanamala yambbi
One thing you should remember is that the FIFA ranking table takes into account all games played within a 4 year period….when you look at ALGERIA not only has that country gone to the World Cup in RSA and AFCON in Angola it has played countless preparatory friendlies with highly ranked opposition leading up to those tournaments you factor in qualifers…these things are on the FIFA website for everyone to see; its trash because you don’t understand simple as that. Tell your FAZ to play highly ranked teams…
Wake up please!!!
Am happy nobody is responding to Jay Jay’s rantings, leave him to yap bitterly till he…. his blood. How would u explain the ranking of England higher than Brazil?? Useless FIFA so………… ifwe ni chipolopolo copper bullet chipolopolo eeeehhh iyee hahahaha…. sing…
Brazil is hosting the next FIFA world cup and have automatically qualified hence have not taking part in competitive world cup qualifiers which carries more points and have also chosen not to take part in friendlies…this is basic maths!!
I wish you good health too…
May be the best he can do is to shift to his unknown team. How man worthwhile players does Algeria have?
I just discovered that Jay Jay is Simataa Simataaaaaaaaaaa
That would be very convenient for you if I was Mr. Simataa next someone else will say Mr. Kamanga… anytime now that train will come…are these they only people with contrasting views in Zambia? This is the selfsame reason we will never move to the next level in football development as Football House is clogged with narrow-minded officials like yourself with absolutely no version to guide them Tackle issues not personalities; ask yourselves the difficult questions like why are our club teams doing poorly in the CAF club cup? Why can’t we get the best deals for the league. We deserve better…
WAKE UP!!
atase..vaupuba..what criteria do they use..?
FIFA should Wank and not Rank!!!!
we now have Addidas chipolopolo jerseys! awe ma gonga pa street yachilimo
FUFU RANKING…MA-RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!
PUPU-RANKING….MA-2V!!!!
We are happy to brag about winning AFCON 2012 but lets be honest with ourselves what have we achieved since we won the cup, have we moved forward? has this glory trickled down to grassroots football in Katete or Monze? Where has FAZ invested the winnings of AFCON? Have TV rights package improved? Has NIKE improved the kit sponsorship deal? We are still feeding our players to RSA clubs who are benefiting by selling them over in million dollar deals; if TP Mazembe can sell Sunzu for $5million why can’t Nkana or Power do the same…do you know how much that would do towards their infrastructure.
Don’t just debate these issues with your mates in bar on Friday nite and get drunk and forget about it in the morning: confront FAZ they are slowing us down we have places to go.
Wake up people!
Give us history of a better administrator.
@18 EX ZIT, i ve also never understood how england with such a poor international performance for so many years, can be ranked better than brazil and zambia.
Ba TONY BLAIR
you have never understood it as you have never ever bothered to find out how FIFA Ranking table works…simple 1+1=2 instructions are there on the FIFA Website for everyone to understand (even your Great King Kalu could understand them) as you choose to discuss this simple issue with your friends whom don’t understand as well they only became experts after 5 pints of lager!!
Wake up people!!
after all is said and done can Zambia defend the cup? looking at how Zambia has performed in the friendly matches its a disgrace for a team that just won AFCON. Jay Jay i think you are right these people dont want to wake up to the fact that Zambia is not doing well as most people think.
lets just wait and see.
I like that!
Zambia is going to do well at AFCON, we just need to win our first game against Ethiopia andvtjat will put us on course. Nigeria ll draw against Burkina Faso and lodr tp us but later beat Ethiopia.
Zambia tops group at 9 points followed by Nigeria at 4 points!! However, should we lose or draeb openning game on Monday, I ‘ll join ur worrying club!!!!
hahahahaha bless you. if wishes were horses eh?
wishing the team well, and i am impressed with the support from fans.keep it up
May the God of Zambia go /be with Chipolopolo