{"id":156954,"date":"2018-03-16T07:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156954"},"modified":"2018-03-16T07:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:12:25","slug":"azkals-notch-up-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/16\/azkals-notch-up-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Azkals notch up in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156955\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-04dff35eb4760172cccf332f211a9d81dec1ac4130eb69eccfb6ab4ff4948dbb_full_5aab0ae036a892_62714537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156955\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-04dff35eb4760172cccf332f211a9d81dec1ac4130eb69eccfb6ab4ff4948dbb_full_5aab0ae036a892_62714537.jpg\" alt=\"Despite taking February off, the national football team of the Philippines found itself back at 122nd overall from 123rd in the previous rankings. (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite taking February off, the national football team of the Philippines found itself back at 122nd overall from 123rd in the previous rankings. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Ahead of a crucial AFC Asian Cup Qualifier match, the country&#8217;s national football team Azkals went up a notch in the latest FIFA rankings on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite taking February off, the national football team of the Philippines found itself back at 122nd overall from 123rd in the previous rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The Azkals joined a pack of eight countries which have a one-spot upgrade in their respective rankings to 119th-126th places overall.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the one-up, the Azkals remained second in the Southeast Asian ranking with Vietnam still way ahead of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vietnam dropped one spot in the world rankings to 113rd, giving the Azkals an opportunity to further inch closer on the team ahead of a friendly next Thursday and its pivotal showdown with Tajikistan for a spot in the Asian continental tournament on March 27 next year.<\/p>\n<p>Germany stays on top of the world rankings, while Iran (33rd in the world) is still number one in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Ahead of a crucial AFC Asian Cup Qualifier match, the country&#8217;s national football team Azkals went up a notch &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[48462,701],"class_list":["post-156954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc-asian-cup-qualifier","tag-fifa","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156954","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}