{"id":27462,"date":"2026-07-08T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:59:34","slug":"trumps-revenge-belgium-to-demand-new-training-ground-from-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/27462\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s revenge? Belgium to demand new training ground from FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium knocked World Cup hosts USA out of the tournament and will now face <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/spain\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spain;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spain&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> in the quarter-finals. But two days before the showdown, there has been a minor setback.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving in Los Angeles, the Belgian Football Association apparently found that the pitch at the training ground at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) did not meet the minimum requirements.\u00a0In addition to the Belgian outlet &#8216;LeSoir&#8217;, English reporter Ben Jacobs has also reported this.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, the association has now submitted a request to FIFA for a new training ground where the team can train on Wednesday.\u00a0The Red Devils would like to prepare at MLS club <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/la-galaxy\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:LA Galaxy;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;LA Galaxy&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a>, where their final session on Thursday is also scheduled to take place. Talks are reportedly already underway, although FIFA still has to announce its decision.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/news\/raecht-sich-trump-so-belgien-soll-neuen-trainingsplatz-von-der-fifa-fordern-43114369\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium knocked World Cup hosts USA out of the tournament and will now face Spain in the quarter-finals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[15422,7,15425,5731,15427,15424,116,15423,15426],"class_list":["post-27462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgian-football-association","tag-belgium","tag-ben-jacobs","tag-fifa","tag-la-galaxy","tag-loyola-marymount-university","tag-spain","tag-training-ground","tag-world-cup-hosts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116886606022562926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}