{"id":217294,"date":"2025-12-05T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217294\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:06:12","slug":"miguel-delaney-how-donald-trump-exposes-fifas-new-shame-before-controversial-world-cup-2026-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217294\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Delaney: How Donald Trump exposes Fifa\u2019s \u2018new shame\u2019 before controversial World Cup 2026 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FIFA President Gianni Infantino shows U.S. President Donald Trump the World Cup Trophy in the Oval Office as Vice President JD Vance looks on. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages_2231512040.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">FIFA President Gianni Infantino shows U.S. President Donald Trump the World Cup Trophy in the Oval Office as Vice President JD Vance looks on. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Donald Trump is allotted to talk for three minutes at Friday&#8217;s World Cup draw, according to sources with knowledge of the proceedings, but few expect him to actually stick to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Even the setting is perhaps a little preview of how the World Cup 2026 itself might function, and who it\u2019s now about. Friday\u2019s draw was originally intended to be in Las Vegas &#8211; just like for 1994 &#8211; until the Trump administration recommended the Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC. Gianni Infantino\u2019s Fifa duly acquiesced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA President Gianni Infantino shows U.S. President Donald Trump the World Cup Trophy in the Oval Office as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,7357,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-217294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-miguel-delaney","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115668529286226827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}