Team Melli continues to climb and dominate Asia
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Loading...Persianfootball.com – ZURICH, The latest FIFA World ranking released today shows Team Melli’s World Cup Group F opponent Argentina out of top 5, while Iran remains as the highest ranked AFC member.
Top 5 are Spain(1), Germany(2), Portugal(3), Colombia(4), Uruguay(5). Also World Cup host Brazil climbed to 6th and Argentina bumped three spots to stay equal ranked with fierce South American rival. Team Melli’s other 2014 FIFA World Cup fellow Group F members rankings are as follow: Bosnia-Herzegovina(25) and Nigeria(45).
Iran climbed to 37th place and still on top of rankings in AFC zone, followed by Japan(47), Uzbekistan(53) and South Korea(56) is now Asia’s 4th highest ranked team. Australia(59) and Jordan(64) have overtaken UAE(67).
There were changes in rankings amongst fellow Persian speaking members. Afghanistan(122) have overtaken Tajikistan(133) for the first time, their AFC zone ranking are 17 and 19 respectively. Afghanistan will take part in 2014 AFC Challenge Cup in May with a chance of qualification for 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Australia, should they win the tournament.
