President of the Jamaica Football Federation, Michael Ricketts, is beaming with pride after the national senior women’s football team attained it’s highest FIFA world ranking.
The Reggae Girls are now the number 50 ranked team in the world moving up a place from 51 and remain the number one ranked Caribbean Nation in the March release of the latest world ranking.
The team which created history in 2018 by becoming the first Caribbean Country to qualify for a women’s world cup finals, is fifth overall in Concacaf behind Costa Rica who are up a place to 36, Mexico who are 27, Canada number 8 in the world and the USA the reigning world and Olympic champions who are number one in the world.
Ricketts says several individuals and groups should be congratulated for the growth of the women’s program locally.
Michael Ricketts, president of the JFF.
The world’s top five is completed by Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden and England.
