{"id":11123,"date":"2010-04-01T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/australia-break-into-top-20\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T05:33:32","slug":"australia-break-into-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/australia-break-into-top-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia break into top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"324\" width=\"400\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Australia have again broken into the world\u2019s top 20 footballing nations  with the latest FIFA world rankings moving Pim Verbeek\u2019s men up four  places to 19th position. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia gained their highest ever 14th rank in September last  year but slipped to their mid 20s after a string of disappointing AFC  Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 qualifiers results.<\/p>\n<p>However, a 1-0 victory  over Indonesia last month which clinched them qualification for Asia\u2019s  premier showpiece helped them keep their top Asian ranking and jump to  19th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, who defeated Bahrain 2-0 in the AFC  Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 qualifiers, went up by a place to 45th.<\/p>\n<p>Korea  Republic\u2019s shocking 2-0 victory over Ivory Coast in a friendly helped  them jump four places to 49th.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia have maintained their  fourth spot in the Asian pedestal despite a drop of five spots to 62nd  while Iran\u2019s strong showing in the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122  qualification saw them progress by four places to 63rd.<\/p>\n<p>UAE were  the biggest Asian movers following their stunning 1-0 victory over  Uzbekistan in the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 qualifiers. The West Asians  jumped 13 places to a joint ranking of 102 along with Jordan who have  also progressed by four spots.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA World Cup finalists DPR Korea  were down three places to 105.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP 10 AFC RANKINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AFC  ranking (FIFA ranking), country, positional change in FIFA<\/p>\n<p>1  (19) Australia +4<br \/>2 (45) Japan +1<br \/>3 (49) Korea Republic +4<br \/>4  (62) Saudi Arabia -5<br \/>5 (63) Iran +4<br \/>6 (67) Bahrain -4<br \/>7 (81)  Iraq +6<br \/>8 (84) China -1<br \/>9 (94) Kuwait -6<br \/>10 (95) Uzbekistan -20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Australia have again broken into the world\u2019s top 20 footballing nations&#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-11123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3107,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}