{"id":810491,"date":"2026-07-19T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:22:09","slug":"who-controls-football-in-palestine-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810491\/","title":{"rendered":"Who controls football in Palestine? | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">For Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation, football has never been just a game. From FIFA\u2019s recognition of a Zionist-run \u201cPalestine\u201d team to a village pitch facing demolition in the occupied West Bank, this is the story of how the sport became another battleground over land, identity, and representation, Al Jazeera\u2019s Leila Warah explains.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/leila-warah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Leila-Warah-profile-1779787778.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 19 Jul 202619 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed For Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation, football has never been just a game. From FIFA\u2019s recognition of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,1571,12241,221876,6899,221877,588,85,21418,124617],"class_list":["post-810491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-history","tag-middle-east","tag-newsfeed","tag-palestine","tag-show-types","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810491","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=810491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}