{"id":43173,"date":"2021-08-12T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43173"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:03:18","slug":"iran-moves-up-five-places-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/12\/iran-moves-up-five-places-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves up five places in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH,<strong> Iran has moved up five places in the FIFA World Ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragan Skocic\u2019s team returned to the pitch in June after a lengthy intermission, with the remaining games in&nbsp;Round 2 of the Asian Qualifiers postponed due to COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran traveled to Bahrain to play the rest of the games&nbsp;in a hub, winning all four matches to make it a 100% record in the passage to Round 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four wins against Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bahrain, and Iraq saw the \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 climb to 26th place in the ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a considerable amount of movement in the standings, although Belgium managed to retain their top spot despite being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the European Championship. Their last-eight opponents and eventual winners of the tournament, Italy, (5, +2), moved up into the top 5, just behind EURO runners-up England (4, no change). Just above that pair, Brazil (2, +1) and France (3, -1) swapped places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking will be published on 16 September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran has moved up five places in the FIFA World Ranking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43173","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","category-world-cup"],"views":1294,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173","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=43173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43174,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43173\/revisions\/43174"}],"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=43173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}