{"id":19822,"date":"2014-12-19T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2014-12-19T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:09:20","slug":"iran-soccer-team-ranks-51st-in-fifas-last-2014-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/12\/19\/iran-soccer-team-ranks-51st-in-fifas-last-2014-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran soccer team ranks 51st in FIFA\u2019s last 2014 ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran has climbed five positions in the latest ranking of the national soccer teams, ranking 51st in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the most recent ranking published by the international governing body of soccer, FIFA, Iran\u2019s tally of points has hit 580, placing it in the 51st position.<\/p>\n<p>The recent victory over South Korea in a friendly in Tehran improved the team\u2019s position from 56th in the November ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s national team is best in Asia and is followed by Japan, which has gained 563 points and stands at the 54th position in the FIFA ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The top five teams of the ranking include Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium and Netherlands in descending order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; ZURICH, Iran has climbed five positions in the latest ranking of the national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3340,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}