تاریخ شکنی ایران با بهترین رتبه بعد از نوزده سال!

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The Iranian national football team has managed to break a 19-year spell and stand once again in the eighteenth position of the FIFA ranking.

The FIFA Day in November came to an end, and the Iranian national football team succeeded in overcoming two tough matches with wins. First, the team triumphed over North Korea with a score of 3-2 in Laos, and they repeated the same result against the host nation Kyrgyzstan.

These results helped the national team reach 16 points, taking a significant step towards qualifying for the World Cup. The players can now aim to secure their spot in the next FIFA Day, potentially being one of the first countries to qualify for the tournament, which is set to take place jointly in the USA, Mexico, and Canada.

The team’s results also led to them earning 7.73 positive points in the FIFA ranking. The players increased their points total to 1635, allowing them to climb to the eighteenth position. This is a milestone after 19 years and a significant breakthrough for the national team.

Reaching this position was aided by Mexico’s defeat to Honduras. Mexico lost 2-0 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Nations League quarter-finals but came back to win the second leg 4-0 and progressed to the next round. However, that initial loss caused them to drop, bringing their points down to 1627.

As a result, the Iranian national team, with 8 points more than Mexico, was able to move up from the nineteenth position in the world to claim the eighteenth place after many years. The last time the national team held the eighteenth spot was back in September 2005, and now they have reached that rank once more.

This is the best ranking Iran has achieved in the last 19 years in the FIFA ranking, and there’s a solid chance for further advancement in the next FIFA Day. Currently, Iran is eighteenth with 1635 points, while Senegal sits in seventeenth with 1637 points. The USA holds the sixteenth position with 1645 points. If Iran can overcome Uzbekistan and the UAE without worrying about Senegal’s results in the next FIFA Day, they will at least rise to seventeenth place, and if the USA falters, the national team could even aim for sixteenth place.

After Japan and Iran, which have long held the top two spots in the ancient continent, the next rankings for Asian teams go to South Korea, Australia, Qatar, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan.

In the overall ranking, the top five positions remain unchanged, with national teams from Argentina, France, Spain, England, and Brazil in those spots. Portugal and the Netherlands each moved up one place to sixth and seventh, respectively. Belgium fell two spots to eighth. Italy is in ninth place, and Germany made a one-place jump to return to the top 10, taking Colombia’s spot.