{"id":9019,"date":"2017-11-24T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2017-11-25T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:05:09","slug":"iran-remain-asias-top-team-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/24\/iran-remain-asias-top-team-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain Asia&#8217;s top team in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/24\/iran-coach-carlos-queiroz-targets-2018-world-cup-second-round\/\">Iran remains Asia&#8217;s top-ranked team<\/a>\u00a0in the latest FIFA rankings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifa-world-ranking\/ranking-table\/men\/index.html\">released on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli moved up to world&#8217;s number 32 in the rankings, an improvement of two places from October.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, second-ranked Australia, thanks to their FIFA World Cup 2018 Play-off wins over Syria and Honduras,\u00a0 jumped to 39th from 43rd spot previously.<\/p>\n<p>Despite dropping down 11 places, Japan remained\u00a0Asia&#8217;s third highest ranked team.<\/p>\n<p>In the Southeast Asia region, the Philippines is the highest ranked nation at No 118, followed by Vietnam (125), Thailand (132), and Indonesia (154).<\/p>\n<p>Germany have held on to FIFA&#8217;s top spot, while\u00a0Brazil follow the world champions in second place, with Euro 2016 winners Portugal in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran remains Asia&#8217;s top-ranked team\u00a0in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday. Team Melli moved up to world&#8217;s number 32 in the rankings, an improvement of two places from October. Meanwhile, second-ranked Australia, thanks to their FIFA World Cup 2018 Play-off wins over Syria and Honduras,\u00a0 jumped to 39th from 43rd spot previously. Despite dropping down 11 places, Japan remained\u00a0Asia&#8217;s third highest ranked team. In the Southeast Asia region, the Philippines is the highest ranked nation at No 118, followed by Vietnam (125), Thailand (132), and Indonesia (154). Germany have held on to FIFA&#8217;s top spot, while\u00a0Brazil follow the world champions in second place, with Euro 2016 winners Portugal in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/24\/iran-remain-asias-top-team-latest-fifa-rankings\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Iran remain Asia&#8217;s top team in latest FIFA rankings&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[298,110,632,85,57,95],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-afc","tag-australia","tag-fifa-rankings","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","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=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}