{"id":34183,"date":"2017-04-06T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34183"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:44:36","slug":"sunil-chhetri-led-indian-men-s-football-team-rise-to-101-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34183","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Chhetri-led Indian men\u2019s football team rise to 101 in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33994\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg\" alt=\"Indian football team Cambodia\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: The Indian football team jumped 31 places to be at the 101 spot in the recently released FIFA rankings, their best in a couple of decades.<\/p>\n<p>From 132, Stephen Constantine&#8217;s boys rode their narrow 1-0 win against Myanmar in their third round opener of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers to record their sixth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s highest FIFA ranking so far has been 94, which was attained in February 1996 while India were ranked 99 in November 1993 and 100 in October 1993, December 1993 and April 1996.<\/p>\n<p>India accumulated a total of 331 points. The last month&#8217;s total saw them net 233 points.<\/p>\n<p>The near historic rise in rankings has seen Sunil Chhetri and company leapfrog the Democratic Peoples Republic (DPR) of Korea, Thailand, Latvia, Jordan and Iraq to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>India are tied on points with Estonia, Lithuania and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33994\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg\" alt=\"Indian football team Cambodia\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: The Indian football team jumped 31 places to be at the 101 spot in the recently released FIFA rankings, their best in a couple of decades.<\/p>\n<p>From 132, Stephen Constantine&#8217;s boys rode their narrow 1-0 win against Myanmar in their third round opener of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers to record their sixth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s highest FIFA ranking so far has been 94, which was attained in February 1996 while India were ranked 99 in November 1993 and 100 in October 1993, December 1993 and April 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[8065,12975,13384,466],"class_list":["post-34183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-fifa-rankings","tag-football-news","tag-indian-football-team","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunil Chhetri-led Indian men\u2019s football team rise to 101 in FIFA rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34183\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunil Chhetri-led Indian men\u2019s football team rise to 101 in FIFA rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: The Indian football team jumped 31 places to be at the 101 spot in the recently released FIFA rankings, their best in a couple of decades. 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