{"id":21994,"date":"2015-07-09T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21994"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:39:08","slug":"iran-moves-up-three-places-to-38-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/07\/09\/iran-moves-up-three-places-to-38-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves up three places to 38 in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran climbed three places to 38 in the world in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran is the highest-ranked Asian team, followed by Japan (50), Korea Republic (52) and Australia (59).<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the rankings, Argentina has leapfrogged world champion Germany to take the top spot despite losing the Copa America final to Chile this week.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium was placed third, with Colombia and the Netherlands in fourth and fifth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria at No. 19 is the only top-20 team from outside Europe and South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran climbed three places to 38 in the world in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1395,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994","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=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/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=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}