{"id":27154,"date":"2017-02-10T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27154"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:32:33","slug":"iran-remain-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-rankings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/10\/iran-remain-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-rankings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain Asia&#8217;s best in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\">AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran have remained Asia&#8217;s top ranked team despite dropping three places to be 32nd globally in the latest FIFA World Ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-art-full-text field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden in-tfull\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Korea Republic remained Asia\u2019s second best ranked team having dropped two spots to 39th overall, while Japan (52nd) overtook\u00a0Australia (54th) as the third best ranked side in Asia. Saudi Arabia maintained their position as the continent&#8217;s fifth best ranked team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">All of Asia\u2019s top ten\u00a0teams are currently competing in the third round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, with unbeaten Iran leading Group A and Saudi Arabia edging out Japan to sit atop Group B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on March 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Iran<\/strong> (32nd)<br \/>\n<strong>Korea Republic<\/strong> (39th)<br \/>\n<strong>Japan<\/strong> (52nd)<br \/>\n<strong>Australia<\/strong> (54th)<br \/>\n<strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> (56th)<br \/>\n<strong>Uzbekistan<\/strong> (63rd)<br \/>\n<strong>United Arab Emirates<\/strong> (68th)<br \/>\n<strong>Qatar<\/strong> (85th)<br \/>\n<strong>China PR<\/strong> (86th)<br \/>\n<strong>Syria<\/strong> (93rd)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><em><strong>Photo: Lagard\u00e8re Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, Islamic Republic of Iran have remained Asia&#8217;s top ranked team despite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3127,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}