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Nigeria went down one notch in the latest FIFA Coca Cola World ranking of national teams announced Thursday.

The Super Eagles who will be playing in the Russian World Cup, were ranked 52nd, one place down from their position last month. Cameroon slid six points to displace Nigeria at 51st.

Tunisia were the first African team, in 23rd, followed by Senegal in the 27th. Congo DR climbed four places to attain the 39th position, while Egypt, defending Nations Cup winners slipped 13 places to 43rd. Morocco are 42nd, in the new ranking.

Real Madrid and Portugal forward, Christiano Ronald made history as the Los Blancos bagged three goals on the night, one from Marcelo and two history defining goals from Christiano Ronald, bringing his UEFA Champion League goal-haul to 101. Ronaldo’s very first Champions League goal came against FC Zurich in 2009.

Dutch second tier club, Fortuna Sittard have promptly announced a “temporary replacement” for their suspended coach Sunday Oliseh.

The new man is Claudio Braga. He will serve as head coach and Head of Youth Training.

Braga has UEFA Pro License.

Arsenal winger Alex Iwobi is confident that the Super Eagles have a team that can beat Argentina at the 2018 World Cup.

In November 2017 in Krasnodar, the Hale End Academy product was the star man in Nigeria's 4-2 win over the South Americans, who were without the best player on the planet Lionel Messi.

Dutch club Fortuna Sittard suspended former Nigeria captain Sunday Oliseh on Wednesday afternoon due to his frosty relationship with players, staff and management of the club.

Oliseh had been under fire with the higher-ups at Fortuna Sittard with the club suffering four defeats in a row and he fell out with the owner of the club Isitan Gün, who was unhappy with his behavior

''Several attempts by the club to encourage a change in the coach's behaviour have unfortunately not worked, resulting in an unworkable situation," Fortuna Sittard said in a press release.

The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that FIFA will hold one of their 12th FIFA Executive Football Summit (EFS) meetings in Lagos, Nigeria. The FIFA Executive Football Summit meeting is expected to hold between November 2017 and March 2018. This was confirmed by the Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick in an address to the press.