{"id":44916,"date":"2022-02-02T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44916"},"modified":"2022-02-02T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:28:52","slug":"iran-climbs-one-place-in-new-fifa-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/02\/02\/iran-climbs-one-place-in-new-fifa-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran climbs one place in new FIFA world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mehr News &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran\u2019s national men&#8217;s football team, while keeping its first place in Asia football ranking, has moved up to 20th place in a credible football ranking, up one spot since the last FIFA ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Footyrankings website has announced its world ranking for the national men&#8217;s football team according to which the national Iranian men&#8217;s football team has ranked 20th in the world, climbing up one place in the world since the last FIFA rankings released in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian squad has maintained its position at the top of Asia with 1,572.9 well above Japan with 1,549.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranians improved their rankings following two wins in a row against the national football teams of Iraq and UAE in the Asian qualifications for the Qatar 2022 world cup recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran was the first country in Asia to qualify for the world cup after the win against Iraq last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; ZURICH, Iran\u2019s national men&#8217;s football team, while keeping its first place 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":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44916","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","category-world-cup"],"views":8634,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916","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=44916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44917,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions\/44917"}],"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=44916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}