{"id":44271,"date":"2021-11-19T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44271"},"modified":"2021-11-19T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:03:31","slug":"iran-moves-up-to-21st-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/iran-moves-up-to-21st-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves up to 21st in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH,<strong> Iran national football team moved up one place to 21st in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragan Skocic\u2019s defeated Lebanon and Syria last week and needs just one win to book their place in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is the best Asian team in the ranking, followed by Japan (26th), South Korea (33rd), and Australia 35th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belgium remains at the top of the updated list, followed by Brazil and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on Dec. 23, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran national football team moved up one place to 21st in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44271","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":2086,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44271","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=44271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44272,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44271\/revisions\/44272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}