{"id":27679,"date":"2017-04-06T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27679"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:14:57","slug":"iran-lead-the-way-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/iran-lead-the-way-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran lead the way yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-art-intro-text field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden in-tintro\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, <strong>The Islamic Republic of Iran continue to lead the way in Asia, while India have climbed to their best position in two decades, according to the latest FIFA Ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\">Following a busy month of international matches, Asia&#8217;s\u00a0five top ranked sides have, however, remained unaltered with Korea Republic still in second, despite dropping three places to 43rd globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Asia&#8217;s\u00a0third-placed side Japan, trail\u00a0closely behind in 44th\u00a0overall after climbing seven positions, while Australia and Saudi Arabia &#8211; fourth and fith in Asia &#8211; both moved up five spots to be placed 50th and 52nd\u00a0respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The continent&#8217;s biggest movers were India, who moved up an impressive 31 spots to secure 11th spot in Asia and 101st in the\u00a0world. The South Asian nation&#8217;s previous highest ranking was 94th which they achieved in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Iran<\/strong>\u00a0(28th)<br \/>\n<strong>Korea Republic<\/strong>\u00a0(43rd)<br \/>\n<strong>Japan<\/strong>\u00a0(44th)<br \/>\n<strong>Australia<\/strong>\u00a0(50th)<br \/>\n<strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong>\u00a0(52nd)<br \/>\n<strong>Uzbekistan<\/strong>\u00a0(60th)<br \/>\n<strong>United Arab Emirates<\/strong>\u00a0(74th)<br \/>\n<strong>Syria\u00a0<\/strong>(80th)<br \/>\n<strong>China PR<\/strong>\u00a0(81st)<br \/>\n<strong>Qatar<\/strong>\u00a0(89th)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on May 4.<\/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, The Islamic Republic of Iran continue to lead the way in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6506,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679","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=27679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}