{"id":79979,"date":"2015-07-25T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-moves-up-in-fifa-ranking\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T16:51:45","slug":"afghanistan-moves-up-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-moves-up-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan moves up in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan&rsquo;s national football team moved 17 spots up in the latest FIFA World Ranking published in July, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Moving up 17 spots in the FIFA World Ranking, AfghanistanNational Football Team rose to 134<sup>th<\/sup> spot with the 212 points.<\/p>\n<p>According to Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), dazzling performance during the recent qualifying rounds for the FIFA World Cup 2018 has led to the rise in ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In two qualifying rounds so far, Afghanistan has lost its match against Syria and won against Cambodia that placed the country ranked third in its Group E.<\/p>\n<p>On August 03, Afghanistan would play a friendly match in Thailand against the host nation. Later, on August 08 the national team would take on Asian giant Japan in Iran for the World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan\u2019s national football team moved 17 spots up in the latest FIFA World Ranking published in July, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}