{"id":34567,"date":"2018-12-20T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34567"},"modified":"2018-12-20T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:36:08","slug":"team-melli-remains-highest-ranked-asian-team-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/team-melli-remains-highest-ranked-asian-team-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli remains highest-ranked Asian team in FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran national football team is the highest-ranked Asian team in the FIFA ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli is at No. 29, while Australia is 41st, Japan sits 50th and South Korea finishes the year in 53rd place in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium ends 2018 atop FIFA\u2019s rankings with World Cup winner France at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA says Belgium is a single ranking point \u2014 1,727 to 1,726 \u2014 ahead of a French team which won their World Cup final in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil is No. 3 and World Cup runner-up Croatia is No. 4 in a mostly unchanged monthly ranking.<\/p>\n<p>England and Portugal, which both qualified last month for the UEFA Nations League Final Four tournament, are Nos. 5 and 6.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay, Switzerland, Spain, and Denmark complete the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal is Africa\u2019s best team at No. 23 and Mexico leads CONCACAF region teams at No. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran national football team is the highest-ranked Asian team in the&#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-34567","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":1377,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567","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=34567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34568,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions\/34568"}],"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=34567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}