Ghana breaks into top 30

Ghana have moved four places up on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World rankings as the Black Stars occupy the 29th position.

Fifa today published the November edition of the monthly world ranking, which is the penultimate before the year ends.

The Black Stars gained 27 points to give them with a total of 761 points.

Ghana are now the second-best on the African table behind Ivory Coast. Algeria are third with Egypt dropping to fourth.

World and European champions Spain remain unchallenged at the top. The Netherlands are in second and Germany third.

According to Fifa, 131 international 'A' matches were played in the past month, of which 72 were Brazil 2014 preliminaries, eight were EURO 2012 qualifiers and the remaining 51 were friendlies.