The Dream Team VI assistant coach has spoken about his displeasure at the current FIFA rankings which put Nigeria as the 57th best football playing nation in the world

Nigeria U23 assistant coach Fatai Amoo has stated that the current rating of the Super Eagles in the latest Fifa rankings is disheartening.

The country’s senior national team dropped 14 places to 57th in the world and tenth in the world, and Amoo pointed out that the country’s absence from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nation played a key role in the fall while seeking for more friendly games for the Eagles against top football playing nations to rise again.

"My heart bleeds when I see the present rating of the Super Eagles in the latest FIFA rankings. It is unheard of that Nigeria will be so poorly placed,” Amoo lamented to our reporter.

“We need to put our act in order and also ensure that we make use of the international breaks to play countries that are better on the rankings than us for us to move higher on the ladder.

"We need to do something urgent to address the situation to stop it from getting worse than this. We also need to take all games seriously including qualifiers for major competitions. Our inability to play in 2015 African Cup of Nations could have also been a factor too," he concluded.

The Eagles were ranked the fifth best in the world after the 1994 FIFA World Cup and have never attained that height since then.