{"id":40747,"date":"2020-10-22T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40747"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:45:19","slug":"iran-move-one-spot-up-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/22\/iran-move-one-spot-up-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran move one spot up in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team climbed one place up to 29th in October\u2019s edition of FIFA ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran defeated Uzbekistan 2-1 in a friendly match on Oct. 8 in Tashkent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan remained the best Asian team and 27th in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the podium remains the same, the gap has narrowed between top-ranked Belgium and their immediate pursuers, France and Brazil, following the Red Devils&#8217; loss to England (4th) in the UEFA Nations League \u2013 their first defeat since November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest climber this month was Malta (180th, + 6), who jumped six places courtesy of victories over Gibraltar (195th, unchanged) and Latvia (142nd, -5) and a draw with Andorra (145th, -8). Also worthy of note is the progress of Ecuador (60th, +4), Panama (77th, +4) and Israel (88th, +5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 26 Nov, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team climbed one place up to 29th in&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40747","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"],"views":591,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747","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=40747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40748,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747\/revisions\/40748"}],"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=40747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}