{"id":26318,"date":"2016-10-20T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26318"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:09:01","slug":"iran-climbs-10-places-to-27th-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/iran-climbs-10-places-to-27th-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran climbs 10 places to 27th in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team climbed ten positions to 27 in the FIFA global football rankings published on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pair of wins for Team Melli against Uzbekistan and South Korea in the 2018 World Cup qualification means the team finds itself above Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Sweden and Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has maintained its position as the best Asian team, followed by Australia (40), South Korea (44), Uzbekistan (48) and Japan (51).  <\/p>\n<p>Germany has moved up to second behind Argentina as Belgium dropped out of the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, who beat Belgium in a friendly last month, is back in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The next edition of the FIFA World Ranking will be released on 24 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team climbed ten positions to 27 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":[84,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":2302,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318","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=26318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318\/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=26318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}