{"id":20921,"date":"2026-05-09T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:03:16","slug":"afghanistan-futsal-team-made-history-with-a-seven-place-rise-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/09\/afghanistan-futsal-team-made-history-with-a-seven-place-rise-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Futsal team made history with a seven-place rise in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Afghanistan National Football Federation, said in a statement on Friday night that Afghanistan\u2019s national futsal team has climbed seven places in the latest global rankings released by FIFA.<br>According to a statement, the Afghan futsal team moved from 28th place to 21st in the world rankings.<br>Meanwhile, Mawlavi Ahmadullah Wasiq, head of Afghanistan\u2019s Olympic, Physical Education and Sports Directorate, wrote on X that the national team secured its new position with 1,194.68 ranking points.<br>With the latest rise, Afghanistan\u2019s futsal team is now ranked fifth among Asian countries.<br>The Afghanistan Football Federation described the achievement as \u201chistoric,\u201d calling it a sign of Afghan athletes emerging as a growing force in Asian futsal.<br>The federation added: \u201cPride of Asia, pride of Afghanistan; through effort, faith, and unity toward the peaks of the world.\u201d<br>In recent years, Afghanistan\u2019s national futsal team has attracted international attention with strong performances against some of the world\u2019s top teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Afghanistan National Football Federation, said in a statement on Friday night that Afghanistan\u2019s national futsal team has climbed seven places in the latest global rankings released by FIFA.According to a statement, the Afghan futsal team moved from 28th place to 21st in the world rankings.Meanwhile, Mawlavi Ahmadullah Wasiq, head of Afghanistan\u2019s Olympic, Physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20923,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions\/20923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}