{"id":453923,"date":"2026-02-02T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:45:10","slug":"fifa-boss-says-russia-should-be-let-back-into-international-football-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453923\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA boss says Russia should be let back into international football \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would send a positive message to have \u201cgirls and boys from Russia\u201d\u00a0participating\u00a0in football tournaments across Europe, he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Infantino\u00a0maintains close ties with U.S. President Donald Trump\u00a0and awarded him the newly created FIFA Peace Prize\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fifa-trump-peace-prize-football-chief-launches-new-award-ahead-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">widely seen as a token\u00a0honor<\/a>\u00a0after the American president did not get the Nobel Peace Prize despite campaigning heavily for it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0in December.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA also opened an office in New York\u2019s Trump Tower in July and appointed Trump\u2019s daughter\u00a0Ivanka to the board of an education charity project co-funded by\u00a02026 FIFA\u00a0World Cup ticket sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is hosting the World Cup\u00a0this summer\u00a0together with Mexico and Canada and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/no-world-cup-boycott-for-now-says-germany-football-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has faced calls for boycotts<\/a>\u00a0from some quarters of politics and society over the Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Russia hosted the tournament in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would send a positive message to have \u201cgirls and boys from Russia\u201d\u00a0participating\u00a0in football tournaments across Europe, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2065,2490,596,28245,13202,2184,2016,234280,588,85,60649,5525,1055,2013],"class_list":["post-453923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-football","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-mexico","tag-russia","tag-society-and-culture","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453923","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=453923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}