{"id":41690,"date":"2021-02-18T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41690"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:15:59","slug":"fifa-ranking-iran-remain-second-best-asian-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/fifa-ranking-iran-remain-second-best-asian-team\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA ranking: Iran remain second best Asian team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran national football team remain second best Asian team in the latest FIFA World Ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With minimal national team football played since the last ranking in December, there were no changes to the positions of Asia&#8217;s top ranked teams with Japan 27th, followed by Iran at 29th, while Korea Republic are ranked 38th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia are at 41st, with reigning Asian AFC Asian Cup champions Qatar completing the top five at 58th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belgium, France, Brazil, England and Portugal continue to occupy the top spots, with the leading trio of Belgium, France and Brazil only separated by 37 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first FIFA World Ranking of 2021, a total of 43 full internationals (including one played in December 2020) were taken into account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran national football team remain second best Asian team in the&#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-41690","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":805,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690","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=41690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41691,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41690\/revisions\/41691"}],"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=41690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}