{"id":32252,"date":"2018-06-07T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32252"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:41:46","slug":"iran-overtaken-by-australia-as-asias-top-team-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/iran-overtaken-by-australia-as-asias-top-team-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran overtaken by Australia as Asia&#8217;s top team in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Australia climbed up four spots to 36th place to overtake the Islamic Republic of Iran to be Asia\u2019s top-ranked team, in the FIFA World Ranking released on Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The remarkable achievement came at perfect timing for the Socceroos and will serve as a boost ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran dropped one rung to 37th, followed by the Korea Republic who moved four rungs up to 57th after their impressive 2-0 win over Honduras last month.<\/p>\n<p>Japan fell one spot to 61, while Saudi Arabia\u2019s ranking remains unchanged at 67th to complete Asia\u2019s top five teams, who will begin their Russia 2018 campaigns next week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jordan also made great strides to become Asia\u2019s biggest mover, climbing eight spots to 110th<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Rankings are to be released on July 19.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-2-280x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-2-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-2-80x100.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Australia climbed up four spots to 36th place to overtake 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":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32252","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1505,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252","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=32252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32261,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252\/revisions\/32261"}],"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=32252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}