{"id":25043,"date":"2021-06-01T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=25043"},"modified":"2021-06-01T21:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:48:31","slug":"iran-remain-unchanged-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/25043\/iran-remain-unchanged-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain unchanged in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national football team remained unchanged in the in the latest FIFA Men&#8217;s World Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are 31st in the world and second in Asia behind Japan.<\/p>\n<p>With only one match played since the last edition was published \u2013 a Ukraine-Bahrain friendly that ended all square (1-1) \u2013 the Top 50 remains unchanged, with Belgium leading the way from France and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s one-place gain (98, +1) is the only movement among the 210 national teams that make up the ranking. Ukraine remain 24th but, having dropped points, nearest pursuers Serbia have closed the gap on them.<\/p>\n<p>However, while things are presently calm in the standings, that is all expected to change in the coming weeks, when a host of international competitions take place around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/preliminaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup qualifiers<\/a> in Asia, as well as qualifiers for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/arabcup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA Arab Cup 2021\u2122<\/a> involving teams from Africa and Asia in mid-June, FIFA.com wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA Men&#8217;s World Ranking will be published on 12 August 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national football team remained unchanged in the in the latest FIFA Men&#8217;s World Ranking. The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are 31st in the world and second in Asia behind Japan. With only one match played since the last edition was published \u2013 a Ukraine-Bahrain friendly that ended all square (1-1) \u2013 the Top 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}