{"id":175061,"date":"2024-06-22T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-climb-one-place-in-junes-fifa-world-rankings\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T17:39:06","slug":"egypt-climb-one-place-in-junes-fifa-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-climb-one-place-in-junes-fifa-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Climb One Place in June&#8217;s FIFA World Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Egypt have climbed one place in FIFA&#8217;s June rankings released on Thursday and moved to third place among African countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">After securing victory over Burkina Faso and drawing with Guinea Bissau in the African 2026 World Cup qualifiers group stage earlier this month, the Pharaohs advanced from the 37th to the 36th position in this month&#8217;s FIFA global rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">They now hold the third position among African countries, trailing behind Morocco (12th) and Senegal (18th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Additionally, Egypt secured&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406200707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt have climbed one place in FIFA&#8217;s June rankings released on Thursday and moved to third place among African countries. After securing victory over Burkina Faso and drawing with Guinea Bissau in the African 2026 World Cup qualifiers group stage earlier this month, the Pharaohs advanced from the 37th to the 36th position in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":175062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,22931,4697,415,9109,48846,257,8673,11789,254,5093],"class_list":["post-175061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-climb","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fifa","tag-junes","tag-news","tag-place","tag-rankings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}