{"id":163990,"date":"2018-05-17T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163990"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:04:23","slug":"azkals-sets-new-record-high-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/17\/azkals-sets-new-record-high-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Azkals sets new record-high FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114731\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/308892_463025310407693_177458854_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114731\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/308892_463025310407693_177458854_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Azkal's rise happened after Zimbabwe slipped three spots to 113th overall. North Korea now occupies the 110th spot, while Kenya moved up to 112th. (Philippine National Football Team) \/ Facebook)\" width=\"600\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/308892_463025310407693_177458854_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/308892_463025310407693_177458854_n-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Azkal&#8217;s rise happened after Zimbabwe slipped three spots to 113th overall. North Korea now occupies the 110th spot, while Kenya moved up to 112th. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineAzkals\/photos\/a.139000032810224.21777.121127397930821\/463025310407693\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Philippine National Football Team) \/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Azkals once again made the jump in the FIFA rankings as the official update was released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Azkals set a new record-high at 111th place overall, two places up from 113th last month.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in the world football rankings happened despite them not playing a single FIFA international match during the recent international break.<\/p>\n<p>The Azkal&#8217;s rise happened after Zimbabwe slipped three spots to 113th overall. North Korea now occupies the 110th spot, while Kenya moved up to 112th.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the new record, the Azkals remained second in Southeast Asia as Vietnam also moved up one spot to 102nd overall to remain as the region&#8217;s top football team. The Azkals also stayed 19th in the Asian rankings.<\/p>\n<p>With the participating teams in the FIFA World Cup next month gearing up for their last-minute preparations, there was no shakeup within the Top 47 teams in the FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Azkals once again made the jump in the FIFA rankings as the official update was released on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[4662,701],"class_list":["post-163990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-azkals","tag-fifa","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163990","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=163990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}