{"id":822590,"date":"2026-07-25T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822590\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:29:09","slug":"australia-international-tests-positive-for-cocaine-and-has-drivers-licence-suspended-after-twice-being-stopped-for-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822590\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia international tests positive for cocaine and has driver&#8217;s licence suspended after twice being stopped for speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the reports involving the player, Football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/australia-national-anthem-advance-australia-fair-lyrics-in-full-explained\/bltf69ed9a1e9888d1f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Australia<\/a> and the local professional players&#8217; union have confirmed their commitment to monitoring the situation while providing full support.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Football Australia released an official statement regarding the news surrounding the Socceroos winger: &#8220;We have been in contact with the player and continue to monitor the matter and support the player throughout this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) echoed similar sentiments in a separate statement: &#8220;The PFA is aware of reports concerning Cristian Volpato and will ensure he is supported.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addressing the reports involving the player, Football Australia and the local professional players&#8217; union have confirmed their commitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,396905,44,396904,10815,21418],"class_list":["post-822590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-c-volpato","tag-news","tag-sassuolo","tag-serie-a","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822590","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=822590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}