{"id":739249,"date":"2026-02-03T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/739249\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:44:18","slug":"fifa-president-gianni-infantino-favors-ending-russia-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/739249\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA president Gianni Infantino favors ending Russia ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he supports the reinstatement of Russia and called for an end to the country&#8217;s four-year exclusion from international tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA barred Russia from competition when its ongoing invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. Russia was expelled from that year&#8217;s World \u200bCup in Qatar and was not part of qualifying \u200dfor the \u20602026 edition to be held this summer \u200din the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino said the ban has been fruitless in an interview with Sky Sports that took place in London over the weekend during the FIFA Women&#8217;s Champions \u200dCup. His first desire is to have Russia&#8217;s youth teams reinstated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he supports the reinstatement of Russia and called for an end to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1512,1518,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-739249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-fifa","9":"tag-gianni-infantino","10":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116006057757925586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739249","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=739249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}