{"id":18145,"date":"2014-05-08T07:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18145"},"modified":"2014-05-08T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:33:37","slug":"iran-stagnant-at-fifa-ranking-yet-still-top-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/05\/08\/iran-stagnant-at-fifa-ranking-yet-still-top-of-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran stagnant at FIFA ranking yet still top of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, <strong>The latest FIFA World ranking released today shows Team Melli\u2019s World Cup Group F opponent Argentina move down to 7th, while Iran at 37 remains as the highest ranked AFC member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli\u2019s other 2014 FIFA World Cup fellow Group F members Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nigeria are 25 and 44 respectively. While top 5 are Spain (1), Germany (2), Portugal (3), Brazil (4) and Colombia (5).<\/p>\n<p>In AFC zone, trailing Iran are Japan (47), Uzbekistan (53), South Korea (55), Australia (59) and Jordan (64). While Iran&#8217;s fellow Persian speaking members Tajikistan (121) and Afghanistan (128) remain in the top 20 of Asia, their AFC zone ranking are 17 and 18 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Out of Iran&#8217;s UEFA neighbours only Armenia (33) has a higher rank, others Turkey (39) and Azerbaijan (85) have a lower ranking in comparison to Team Melli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, The latest FIFA World ranking released today shows Team Melli\u2019s World Cup&#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-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5273,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","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=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}