{"id":18846,"date":"2014-07-17T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18846"},"modified":"2014-07-17T05:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:58:19","slug":"iran-no-longer-top-of-asia-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/17\/iran-no-longer-top-of-asia-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran no longer top of Asia in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, <strong>The latest FIFA World ranking released today shows Team Melli at 49 trailing Japan who is now the highest ranked AFC member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top 5 are now Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Colombia and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>In AFC zone, trailing Japan and Iran are Uzbekistan (52), South Korea (56), Jordan (57), UAE (65), Oman (69) and Australia (76).<\/p>\n<p>Latest FIFA Ranking for all 2014 FIFA World Cup participants as below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Stage Exit &#8211;<\/strong> Australia (76), South Korea (56), Cameroon (53), Iran (49), Japan (45), Honduras (40), Ghana (38), Ivory Coast (25), Russia (23), Ecuador (21), England (20), Bosnia-Herzegovina (19), Croatia (17), Italy (14), Portugal (11), Spain (8)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round of 16 &#8211;<\/strong> Nigeria (34), Algeria (24), Mexico (18), USA (15), Greece (13), Chile (12), Switzerland (9), Uruguay (6)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter-Finals &#8211;<\/strong> Costa Rica (16), France (10), Belgium (5), Colombia (4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-Finals &#8211;<\/strong> Brazil (7), Netherlands (3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final &#8211;<\/strong> Argentina (2), Germany (1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, The latest FIFA World ranking released today shows Team Melli at 49&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5580,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846","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=18846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}