{"id":34583,"date":"2018-12-20T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34583"},"modified":"2018-12-20T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:46:26","slug":"ir-iran-remain-as-asias-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/ir-iran-remain-as-asias-best\/","title":{"rendered":"IR Iran remain as Asia&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran ended their 2018  season as Asia&#8217;s best, following the latest FIFA Rankings released on  Thursda<\/strong>y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli retained their position in 29th spot, with Australia, \nJapan, Korea Republic and Saudi Arabia&#8217;s positions also unchanged at \n29th, 41st, 50th, 53rd, and 69th respectively to complete Asia&#8217;s top \nfive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All\n five teams will convene in the United Arab Emirates, where they will be\n joined by 19 other nations &#8211; including hosts UAE &#8211; for the AFC Asian \nCup UAE 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preparations\n for all teams have gathered pace with a series of friendly matches \ntaking place over the next two weeks, before the Continental showpiece \nkicks off on January 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-9.40.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-9.40.16-PM.png 540w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-9.40.16-PM-83x100.png 83w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-20-at-9.40.16-PM-290x350.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Friendlies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 24<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq v China PR  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iran<\/strong> v Palestine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 25<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar v Kyrgyz Republic  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghanistan v Turkey  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam v DPR Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 27<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar v Algeria  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India v Oman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 28<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq v Palestine  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China PR v Jordan  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UAE v Kuwait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 29<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemen v Syria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 31<\/strong>  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyrgyz Republic v Palestine  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar v <strong>Iran  <\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam v Philippines  <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korea Republic v Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, Islamic Republic of Iran ended their 2018 season as Asia&#8217;s best,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":566,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34588,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions\/34588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}