{"id":34314,"date":"2018-11-29T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34314"},"modified":"2018-11-29T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:02:40","slug":"team-melli-rise-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/29\/team-melli-rise-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli rise in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran national football team\u2019s win over Trinidad and Tobago has seen them Move up one place in FIFA ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have moved up to 29th place in the ranking and remained Asia\u2019s top team.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team edged past Trinidad and Tobago 1-0 as part of preparation for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The top five Asian teams remained unchanged with Australia as the second best team, moving one spot up to 41st while Japan are third at 50th.<\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic are 53rd, and are the continent&#8217;s fourth best ranked team and Saudi Arabia sit in 69th, Syria and China are 74th and 76th respectively. Asian Cup hosts UAE come in as Asia&#8217;s eighth-placed side at 79th spot.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium remain top of the ranking, although the gap between the Red Devils, France (2nd, unchanged) and Brazil (3rd, unchanged) has narrowed over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of Kosovo (131st, up 6) was also notable as it took them to their highest position ranking position to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran national football team\u2019s win over Trinidad and Tobago has seen&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34314","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"],"views":1572,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314","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=34314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34315,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34314\/revisions\/34315"}],"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=34314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}