{"id":62787,"date":"2026-07-17T19:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/62787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:39:44","slug":"trump-infantino-is-this-the-world-cup-that-broke-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/62787\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Infantino: is this the World Cup that BROKE FIFA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Trump-Infantino: is this the World Cup that BROKE FIFA?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQUvJJLpSUA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrump-Infantino: is this the World Cup that BROKE FIFA?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe World Cup final is here. But could this tournament be remembered more for its politics than its football -from Donald Trump&#8217;s travel restrictions affecting fans, referees and even national teams, to soaring ticket prices and growing criticism of FIFA&#8217;s relationship with the White House, controversy has followed this World Cup from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of it all is FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Once elected promising to clean up football&#8217;s governing body after the Sepp Blatter era, he&#8217;s now facing mounting criticism from across the game. So, has Infantino gone too far? Could his grip on FIFA finally be weakening? Or is he more powerful than ever?<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Fourcast, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan is joined by broadcaster and football journalist Kate Mason and Carl Anka from the Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump-Infantino: is this the World Cup that BROKE FIFA? The World Cup final is here. But could this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,365,14,2234,38293,49918,40297,49613,19147,51355,4381,40545,25291,354,353,53681,40698,53679,53682,53680,5641,40700,23071,341,2236,2237,40550,42251,2883,235],"class_list":["post-62787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-controversy","tag-fifa-corruption","tag-fifa-president","tag-fifa-scandal","tag-football-analysis","tag-football-governance","tag-football-news","tag-football-politics","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sepp-blatter","tag-soccer-news","tag-spain-argentina","tag-sports-podcast","tag-the-fall-of-the-house-of-fifa","tag-the-fourcast","tag-trump-world-cup","tag-uefa","tag-uk-news","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup-controversy","tag-world-cup-final","tag-world-football","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}