Nigeria’s senior national team begins 2021 as the 36th best football playing country in the world.
The three-time African champions dropped one place in February’s ranking released by Fifa on Thursday morning.
Gernot Rohr’s side accrued a total of 1474 points to remain as the fifth-best team on the continent behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
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Nigeria’s last international fixture was their double-header Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sierra Leone in November 2020 which ended 4-4 and 0-0 respectively.