{"id":168196,"date":"2025-09-25T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:27:12","slug":"football-is-destined-to-die-napoli-president-calls-for-modern-answers-to-capture-distracted-kids-in-grave-warning-to-europes-top-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168196\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Football is destined to die&#8217; &#8211; Napoli president calls for &#8216;modern answers&#8217; to capture &#8216;distracted&#8217; kids in grave warning to Europe&#8217;s top leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has issued one of his starkest warnings to European football. Calling today\u2019s game \u201ctoo slow, outdated, and destined to die,\u201d he argues young audiences are tuning out of a sport stuck in the past. From pushing a 16-team Serie A to free-to-air broadcasts, he insists football must reinvent itself with bold reforms before collapsing under its own weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has issued one of his starkest warnings to European football. Calling today\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,10815,85,95104],"class_list":["post-168196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-serie-a","tag-sports","tag-ssc-napoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168196","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=168196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}