{"id":28301,"date":"2017-06-07T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28301"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:21:01","slug":"iran-climb-two-spots-to-3rd-in-beach-soccer-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/07\/iran-climb-two-spots-to-3rd-in-beach-soccer-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran climb two spots to 3rd in Beach Soccer World Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran have climbed two spots in the beach soccer world rankings published on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil, who won the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup last month, leapfrogged former holders Portugal to the top of the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s first world title since 2009 moves them up two places to first in a much-changed top six after all but one of the world\u2019s top 13 competed in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>While former champions Portugal slip to second place, Iran climb two spots into third ahead of Russia while FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup runners-up Tahiti are back into the top five following their run to the final, beachsoccer.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>Iran made history in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, finishing in third place after defeating Italy 5-3.  <\/p>\n<p>Switzerland remain in seventh, eighth-place Paraguay swap places with Japan, who now sit ninth, while UAE end May in the top 10, having narrowly missed out on a place in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rankings:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Brazil 4658 points,<br \/>\n2. Portugal 3855 points,<br \/>\n<strong>3. Iran 3209 points, <\/strong><br \/>\n4. Russia 3204 points,<br \/>\n5. Tahiti 3090 points,<br \/>\n6. Italy 3040 points,<br \/>\n7. Switzerland 2407 points,<br \/>\n8. Paraguay 1812 points,<br \/>\n9. Japan 1764 points,<br \/>\n10. UAE 1425 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran have climbed two spots in the beach soccer world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,92,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":5148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301","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=28301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}