{"id":12684,"date":"2012-01-18T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/iran-moves-up-one-place-in-fifa-ranking\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:22:45","slug":"iran-moves-up-one-place-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/iran-moves-up-one-place-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves up one place in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"235\" width=\"291\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran moved up one place in the latest FIFA rankings released on Wednesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In the world rankings, Iran climbed 44th place with 623 points. <\/p>\n<p>The Persians remain at fourth place among the Asian teams. Japan is still the best Asian team with 869 points followed by Australia (866) and South Korea (752).<\/p>\n<p>World and European champions Spain remain unchallenged atop of FIFA&#8217;s monthly rankings. The Netherlands remain second in the rankings and Germany is third.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA world rankings are determined by points awarded from match results in a three-year period, with more recent games given greater weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, Iran moved up one place in the latest FIFA rankings released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3375,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}