{"id":123142,"date":"2025-09-06T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:30:10","slug":"football-legends-george-weah-and-didier-drogba-appointed-given-special-roles-by-fifa-in-fight-against-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123142\/","title":{"rendered":"Football legends George Weah and Didier Drogba appointed given special roles by FIFA in fight against racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Chelsea icon Didier Drogba and ex-AC Milan star George Weah have been named among a host of former players on a newly-formed anti-racism panel by FIFA. The idea behind the panel of ex-players is to bolster FIFA&#8217;s efforts to tackle racism in the game. The group will help in developing anti-racism strategies, participate in educational programmes and contribute to reforms across football.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA forms a new anti-racism panelDrogba and Weah are part of the panel16-member panel of ex-players will advise FIFA to tackle racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea icon Didier Drogba and ex-AC Milan star George Weah have been named among a host of former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[18088,64,63,6187,86648,596,86649,85],"class_list":["post-123142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ac-milan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chelsea","tag-d-drogba","tag-football","tag-g-weah","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}