{"id":17571,"date":"2014-03-13T05:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17571"},"modified":"2014-03-13T05:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:02:46","slug":"iran-still-top-ranked-afc-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/13\/iran-still-top-ranked-afc-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran still top ranked AFC member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, <strong>The latest FIFA World ranking released today still shows Iran as the highest ranked AFC member despite Team Melli&#8217;s defeat to Guinea last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIran(42) still on top of rankings in AFC zone, Japan(48) is second, Uzbekistan(55) overtook South Korea(60) to take third place. While UAE(61) in fifth ahead of Australia(63).<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, now all Persian speaking members are amongst the top 20 of AFC Zone. Tajikistan(121) with a zone ranking of 16, while Afghanistan(127) at 18th place. Both are ahead of likes of North Korea, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Syria and Indonesia to mention a few.<\/p>\n<p>2014 FIFA World Cup fellow Group F members rankings are as follow: Argentina(3), Bosnia-Herzegovina(21) and Nigeria(47).<\/p>\n<p>Also there were no changes in top 5, Spain(1), Germany(2), Portugal(4), Colombia(5). However Uruguay climbed to 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, The latest FIFA World ranking released today still shows Iran as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4345,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}