{"id":25626,"date":"2016-07-14T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25626"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:29:30","slug":"iran-highest-ranked-asian-team-in-july-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/14\/iran-highest-ranked-asian-team-in-july-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran highest ranked Asian team in July FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran still is the best Asian team in the latest FIFA world rankings were released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli remained unchanged at number 39, followed by South Korea, Uzbekistan, and Japan.  <\/p>\n<p>European champion Portugal moved up two places to No. 6 in the FIFA rankings, and Copa America winner Chile stays fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina is still No. 1 despite losing to Chile in the final for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p> Wales climbed 15 places to 11th after booking a place at the Euro\u2019s semis.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium at No. 2, Colombia at No. 3 and Germany at No. 4 are in an unchanged top five, while Euro 2016 runner-up France is seventh, up 10 places. Iceland is at best-ever 22nd, up 12.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico leads CONCACAF nations at No. 14, and Copa America semifinalist United States moved six to 25th. Algeria is Africa&#8217;s best at No. 32; and Oceania champion New Zealand has risen 54 places to No. 93.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 228 \u2018A\u2019 internationals contributed to the new order, with those big events in Oceania, Europe and the Americas especially important in propelling nations upwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran still is the best Asian team in the latest FIFA&#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-25626","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":2025,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626","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=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626\/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=25626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}