{"id":31383,"date":"2018-04-12T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31383"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T22:16:11","slug":"iran-falls-three-places-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/12\/iran-falls-three-places-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran falls three places in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran national football team moved three spots down to 36th place in the latest FIFA world rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran are the best Asian football team in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Australia remains second in the AFC, followed by Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and China.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup holders Germany have retained the top spot after the latest round of international matches while Belgium have climbed to third ahead of the 2018 finals in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 133 matches were played in March, including international friendlies and 13 competitive games in the AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia and Uruguay were among the big movers as they entered the top 20 while the matches in Asia helped Oman, Chinese Taipei and Philippines improve their rankings.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA&#8217;s newest members Kosovo, who climbed 24 spots to 152nd, and Gibraltar, who leaped 10 spots to 196th, also benefited from friendly victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran national football team moved three spots down to 36th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","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=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31384,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions\/31384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}