{"id":39707,"date":"2020-07-16T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39707"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:02:30","slug":"fifa-ranking-iran-remains-second-best-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/16\/fifa-ranking-iran-remains-second-best-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA ranking: Iran remains second-best in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team remained 33rd in world and second in Asia in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan as the best Asian team sit 28th in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although club football has slowly restarted in various leagues around the world, the spread of COVID-19 remains an obstacle to the staging of international matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;This has again affected the latest FIFA World Ranking, which remains unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belgium remain top followed by France and Brazil, while England and Uruguay are 4th and 5th, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lurking behind them in descending order are Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team remained 33rd in world and second in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39707","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":1205,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39707","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=39707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39709,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39707\/revisions\/39709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}