{"id":710147,"date":"2026-06-02T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710147\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:09:08","slug":"socceroos-world-cup-the-politicians-set-to-join-football-australia-junket-to-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710147\/","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos World Cup: The politicians set to join Football Australia junket to North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contingent of fans may be boycotting this month\u2019s World Cup over Donald Trump\u2019s various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/north-america\/mexico-steps-in-after-us-refuses-to-host-iran-players-at-world-cup-20260526-p600mm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">policies and bombings<\/a>, but these concerns haven\u2019t extended to Canberra. Instead, it seems the delegation headed across the Pacific from Parliament House is so large the politicians could field their own team.<\/p>\n<p>Labor MP Jerome Laxale is leading the contingent, which is being organised by Football Australia. The Bennelong representative is football mad (following Sydney FC and Leeds United).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contingent of fans may be boycotting this month\u2019s World Cup over Donald Trump\u2019s various policies and bombings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-710147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710147","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=710147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}