{"id":1169595,"date":"2026-08-26T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169595\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:24:31","slug":"its-a-wasted-effort-emmanuel-petit-calls-for-gianni-infantinos-departure-as-france-legend-details-fifa-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169595\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a wasted effort&#8217; &#8211; Emmanuel Petit calls for Gianni Infantino&#8217;s departure as France legend details FIFA open letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legend expressed surprise that the collective\u2019s letter had generated such a significant media storm, but he hopes the noise will eventually lead to tangible shifts in how football is managed.<\/p>\n<p>In his closing remarks on the matter, Petit touched upon the need for a return to democratic values within the halls of FIFA. &#8220;I don&#8217;t hold the truth, but it goes in a democratic direction. Today, we are very, very far from it. I find that currently, we are in the appropriation, precisely, of a common good for personal ends. And we are going more and more in that direction and not just in football,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legend expressed surprise that the collective\u2019s letter had generated such a significant media storm, but he hopes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[317325,2000,299,36,1514],"class_list":["post-1169595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-e-petit","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}