{"id":22315,"date":"2015-08-06T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22315"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:14:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:14:36","slug":"iran-drops-three-places-to-no-41-in-fifa-rankings-still-1st-in-afc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/08\/06\/iran-drops-three-places-to-no-41-in-fifa-rankings-still-1st-in-afc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran drops three places to No. 41 in FIFA rankings, still 1st in AFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran has dropped three places to 41st in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran remained the top nation among the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member, followed by South Korea, Japan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup winner Germany dropped to No. 3 in the latest FIFA rankings, with beaten finalist Argentina still at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Germany trades places with new No. 2 Belgium as its World Cup results drop in value more than one year later.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 29 international \u2018A\u2019 matches taken into account for this month\u2019s FIFA Ranking, 26 were CONCACAF Gold Cup matches and the remaining three were friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 3 September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran has dropped three places to 41st in the latest FIFA rankings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1786,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315","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=22315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/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=22315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}