{"id":12790,"date":"2012-03-07T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/07\/iran-51st-in-fifa-rankings\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:42:00","slug":"iran-51st-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/07\/iran-51st-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran 51st in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"243\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran dropped down the FIFA rankings released on Wednesday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran has dropped four places to 51st with 574 points in the latest ranking. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Persians remain at fourth place among the Asian teams. Australia is the best Asian team with 868 points, followed by South Korea (751) and Japan (740). <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>World and European champion Spain remained at the top of FIFA&#8217;s monthly world rankings list, the Netherlands regained second spot and Argentina returned to the top 10.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The rankings weigh all international results over a rolling four-year period, and this month counted 91 matches including qualifiers for the World Cup and 2013 Cup of Nations, plus exhibition games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, Iran dropped down the FIFA rankings released on Wednesday. &nbsp;Iran has&#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-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4217,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","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=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/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=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}