{"id":21113,"date":"2015-04-09T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21113"},"modified":"2015-04-09T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:48:23","slug":"iran-moves-up-two-places-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/09\/iran-moves-up-two-places-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Moves Up Two Places in FIFA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian national football team has moved up two places to 40th in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Chile 2-0 and lost to Sweden 3-1 in two friendlies held in late March.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is the best Asian team in the world, followed by Japan, South Korea, Australia and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the FIFA rankings, World Cup winner Germany remains first and Argentina second, but Belgium moved above Colombia into third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian national football team has moved up two places to 40th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1693,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}