{"id":69753,"date":"2026-07-30T19:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:50:58","slug":"infantino-overplayed-his-hand-england-to-boycott-world-cup-over-infantinos-plan-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69753\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Infantino overplayed his hand&#8217;: England to boycott World Cup over Infantino\u2019s plan | Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Infantino overplayed his hand&#039;: England to boycott World Cup over Infantino\u2019s plan | Comment\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjSjFyUGrpY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Infantino overplayed his hand&#8217;: England to boycott World Cup over Infantino\u2019s plan | Comment<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEngland will boycott the World Cup alongside all European nations in response to Gianni Infantino\u2019s \u00a315bn tournament sale.<\/p>\n<p>Uefa members voted 55-0 in favour of turning their backs on the global governing body in a show of outrage against the Fifa president and his proposal to sell 30 per cent of World Cup commercial rights to private investors.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time that an entire confederation has voted to boycott major Fifa tournaments, with the Football Association and contemporaries across Europe deciding they have no option but to take such a dramatic and united stand.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/07\/30\/uefa-nations-support-boycott-world-cup-infantino-plan\/<\/p>\n<p>#infantino #fifa #football<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Infantino overplayed his hand&#8217;: England to boycott World Cup over Infantino\u2019s plan | Comment England will boycott the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[17614,461,2234,2241,58020,18709,31,338,339,58019,28135,340,337,23071,341,26016,2236,58021,235],"class_list":["post-69753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-boycott","tag-england","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-football-boycott","tag-infantino","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-purchase","tag-sale","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-uefa","tag-uk-news","tag-votes","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-boycott","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117010720492035731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69753","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=69753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}