{"id":69911,"date":"2026-07-31T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:25:12","slug":"fifa-responds-after-uefa-vows-to-boycott-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69911\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA responds after UEFA vows to boycott World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"FIFA responds after UEFA vows to boycott World Cup\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3HuTSQbiQzg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFIFA responds after UEFA vows to boycott World Cup<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFIFA has defended its controversial plan to sell stakes in its competitions, including the World Cup, to private investors.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, football&#8217;s governing body denied it was &#8220;selling football&#8221; and declared: &#8220;This is not something FIFA would ever entertain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes after widespread backlash to the plan reached a new peak on Thursday with UEFA&#8217;s announcement that all European nations are prepared to boycott the World Cup if it goes ahead.<\/p>\n<p>#SkyNews #FIFA #WorldCup <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA responds after UEFA vows to boycott World Cup FIFA has defended its controversial plan to sell stakes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[51538,29152,2234,46862,25753,18709,245,31,1520,296,58136,4382,1068,48,258,8062,2236,3513],"class_list":["post-69911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-coverage","tag-fa","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news","tag-full-coverage","tag-infantino","tag-live","tag-news","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-sport-talk","tag-sports-news","tag-stream","tag-trump","tag-us-news","tag-watch","tag-world-cup","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117013205758350517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69911","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=69911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}