{"id":13824,"date":"2014-06-05T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2014-06-05T22:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:44:49","slug":"defending-world-cup-champion-spain-keeps-top-spot-in-fifa-rankings-brazil-rises-to-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/defending-world-cup-champion-spain-keeps-top-spot-in-fifa-rankings-brazil-rises-to-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending World Cup champion Spain keeps top spot in FIFA rankings, Brazil rises to No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/World-Cup-Brasil-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12629\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/World-Cup-Brasil-2014.jpg\" alt=\"World Cup Brasil 2014\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/World-Cup-Brasil-2014.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/World-Cup-Brasil-2014-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">ZURICH, Switzerland\u2014Defending World Cup champion Spain will travel to Brazil as the No. 1 team in the FIFA rankings, and the host nation will kick off as No. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Spain and Germany remain 1-2 in FIFA\u2019s monthly standings, while Brazil leapfrogs No. 4 Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Argentina and Switzerland both climb two places to Nos. 5 and 6. Colombia drops three to No. 8. Group D rivals Uruguay, Italy and England are also all in the top 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Canada remained in the No. 110 position, tied with Bahrain and sandwiched between Latvia and Niger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">No. 11 Belgium is the lowest-ranked of the seeded World Cup teams. The United States at No. 13 leads CONCACAF nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Algeria, at No. 22, is top-ranked in Africa and No. 43 Iran heads Asian confederation teams. Australia, No. 62, is the lowest-ranked team at the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Canada tied Bulgaria 1-1 in a friendly last month and played Moldova to a 1-1 draw a few days later.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH, Switzerland\u2014Defending World Cup champion Spain will travel to Brazil as the No. 1 team in the FIFA rankings, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}