{"id":248462,"date":"2026-08-14T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:30:09","slug":"fai-brave-for-not-backing-infantino-what-about-israel-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/248462\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI \u2018brave\u2019 for not backing Infantino. What about Israel? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-association-of-ireland-fai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-association-of-ireland-fai\/\">FAI<\/a> made the \u201cbrave\u201d decision not to back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fifa\/\">Fifa<\/a> head, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gianni-infantino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gianni-infantino\/\">Infantino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A pity this bravery doesn\u2019t extend to deciding to play against the genocidal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Israel continues to try to annihilate the population of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaza-strip\/\">Gaza<\/a> and the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Shame on the FAI. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">COLM \u00d3 BRIEN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Old Bawn,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tallaght.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Bouquets to the FAI in withdrawing its support for Fifa president Gianni Infantino to be re-elected to the post. The organisation has been responsible for too many own goals in recent times, but this move may help restore some much-needed credibility in its governance. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">MICHAEL CULLEN<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sandycove,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 The FAI made the \u201cbrave\u201d decision not to back Fifa head, Infantino. A pity this bravery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[4002,2983,37,2576],"class_list":["post-248462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-football-association-of-ireland-fai","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-israel","tag-soccer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117092222509809562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}