{"id":19456,"date":"2014-10-25T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19456"},"modified":"2014-10-25T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:38:35","slug":"19456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/10\/25\/19456\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran still on top of Asia despite fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; <strong>Iran have remained as Asia&#8217;s top ranked nation despite falling seven spots to sit 51st overall in FIFA&#8217;s October rankings and not playing in the recent international break. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nComing off the back of a 4-0 loss to sixth ranked Brazil, Japan also slipped four places but now only sit one spot behind Team Melli in 52nd overall and second in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan, Korea Republic and Jordan rounded out October&#8217;s top five despite also all dropping down the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq and Qatar, who put together three straight wins in the October, were the biggest movers in Asia&#8217;s top ten both jumping nine places overall to now site in seventh and tenth respectively.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless draw with the UAE and 1-0 loss to Qatar, 2015 AFC Asian Cup hosts Australia continued their recent slip down the rankings to now sit as Asia&#8217;s 11th highest ranked team after dropping to 94th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, Argentina and Colombia remained as the top three ranked sides.<\/p>\n<p>The next chance for Asia&#8217;s top sides to climb up the rankings and build for Asia&#8217;s biggest football tournament will be in November.<\/p>\n<p>The international break will include a rematch of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup final between Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; Iran have remained as Asia&#8217;s top ranked nation despite falling seven spots to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3760,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","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=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}