{"id":19043,"date":"2014-08-14T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19043"},"modified":"2014-08-14T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:10:34","slug":"iran-still-second-best-in-asia-according-to-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/iran-still-second-best-in-asia-according-to-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran still second best in Asia according to FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, <strong>It is that time of the month again, yes the latest FIFA World ranking has been released today and still shows Team Melli trailing Japan as second-best in the AFC zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan and South Korea occupy the top five positions in Asia with rankings of 44, 48, 51, 56 and 57 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>2015 AFC Asian Cup host Australia is ranked 79 in 7th place amongst AFC members. Iran&#8217;s Group C opponents for the January tournament in Down Under are ranked as follow UAE (65), Qatar (92) and Bahrain (107).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Venzuela who is scheduled to meet Iran in a friendly match in October is ranked 29.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA Top 5 remained unchanged being Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Colombia and Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 ZURICH, It is that time of the month again, yes the latest FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4393,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043","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=19043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}