{"id":648888,"date":"2025-12-22T19:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:39:18","slug":"spain-remain-atop-fifa-mens-world-rankings-as-usmnt-climb-to-14th-in-final-2025-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648888\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain remain atop FIFA Men&#8217;s World Rankings as USMNT climb to 14th in final 2025 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from their triumph at the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025, Morocco (11th, unchanged) has narrowed the gap with Croatia (10th, unchanged) to just 0.54 points as they pursue their first top 10 ranking since April 1998. The Atlas Lions claimed the regional crown with a dramatic victory over Jordan in the final, continuing their impressive form since their semifinal run at the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this achievement, Morocco remain just outside the elite group, with the entire top 10 \u2013 Spain, Argentina, France, England, Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Croatia \u2013 maintaining their positions from the previous ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh from their triumph at the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025, Morocco (11th, unchanged) has narrowed the gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[943,2000,299,36,2132,104,659,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-648888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-usa","15":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115764917896876240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}