{"id":815724,"date":"2026-07-21T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815724\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:43:17","slug":"canada-holds-spot-in-fifa-rankings-after-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815724\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada holds spot in FIFA rankings after World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada remained No. 30 in the latest FIFA men&#8217;s world rankings released Monday, while World Cup champion Spain climbed back to No. 1 after its title victory.<\/p>\n<p>Spain moved up one place to replace Argentina, which slipped to second after Sunday&#8217;s 1-0 extra-time loss in the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Canada held its position after reaching the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time before falling 3-0 to Morocco in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico climbed four places to 10th to return to the top 10 for the first time since March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Norway recorded the biggest rise in the rankings, jumping 12 places to 19th after reaching the World Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Germany fell out of the top 10, dropping two places to 12th, after failing to reach the round of 16.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada remained No. 30 in the latest FIFA men&#8217;s world rankings released Monday, while World Cup champion Spain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-815724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}