{"id":7986,"date":"2017-10-17T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:16:51","slug":"vietnam-philippines-jump-ahead-dprk-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/17\/vietnam-philippines-jump-ahead-dprk-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam, Philippines jump ahead of DPRK in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines jumped 7 places in the FIFA World Rankings to retain the top-ranked Southeast Asia teams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifa-world-ranking\/ranking-table\/men\/afc.html\">in the rankings released on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vietnam made an incredible improvement by climbing 9 places to stand at world&#8217;s number 121. The Golden Stars overcame Thailand (138th) to occupy the second-ranked in Southeast Asia region.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, both Philippines and Vietnam surpassed North Korea, who was ranked 132, in the latest FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u00a0lead a pack consisting of Myanmar (155th), Laos (162nd), Indonesia (165th), Malaysia and Cambodia (170th).<\/p>\n<p>At the same time,\u00a0Singapore slumps to lowest ever FIFA world rankings after dropping 11 notches from September&#8217;s ranking of 162 to 173.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC rankings remain largely unchanged, although Iran dropped nine places, from 25th to 34th in the overall table.<\/p>\n<p>The next Asian countries on the overall list are Australia and Japan, standing at 43rd and 44th respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines jumped 7 places in the FIFA World Rankings to retain the top-ranked Southeast Asia teams in the rankings released on Monday. Meanwhile, Vietnam made an incredible improvement by climbing 9 places to stand at world&#8217;s number 121. The Golden Stars overcame Thailand (138th) to occupy the second-ranked in Southeast Asia region. Notably, both Philippines and Vietnam surpassed North Korea, who was ranked 132, in the latest FIFA rankings. Thailand\u00a0lead a pack consisting of Myanmar (155th), Laos (162nd), Indonesia (165th), Malaysia and Cambodia (170th). At the same time,\u00a0Singapore slumps to lowest ever FIFA world rankings after dropping 11 notches from September&#8217;s ranking of 162 to 173. The AFC rankings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/17\/vietnam-philippines-jump-ahead-dprk-latest-fifa-rankings\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Vietnam, Philippines jump ahead of DPRK in latest FIFA rankings&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[298,768,107,446,315,68,105],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-afc","tag-fifa","tag-myanmar","tag-north-korea","tag-southeast-asia","tag-thailand","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}