{"id":48667,"date":"2023-04-06T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48667"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:28:39","slug":"iran-unchanged-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/04\/06\/iran-unchanged-in-latest-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran unchanged in latest FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national football team remained in 24th place in the FIFA World Ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, headed by Amir Ghalenoei, shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw with Russia and defeated Kenya 2-1 in two friendly matches in late March in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, runners-up to Qatar in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, is four places ahead of Iran in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Six years after last topping the FIFA World Ranking, Argentina (1st, plus 1) are once again at the summit of world football. Recent friendly wins against Panama (2-0) and Cura\u00e7ao (7-0) helped the world champions dethrone Brazil (3rd, minus 2), who paid a high price for defeat in their friendly against Morocco (2-1).<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 20 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran&#8217;s national football team remained in 24th place in the FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":925,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667","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=48667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48668,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48667\/revisions\/48668"}],"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=48667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}