{"id":487720,"date":"2026-02-20T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:26:07","slug":"fifa-pledges-monetary-support-for-soccer-infrastructure-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487720\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA pledges monetary support for soccer infrastructure in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday \u201cpledged the governing body\u2019s monetary support for rebuilding soccer infrastructure in Gaza.\u201d Speaking during the inaugural meeting of President Donald Trump\u2019s Board of Peace, Infantino said that FIFA would \u201cinvest tens of millions of dollars into building 50 mini pitches, five full-sized pitches in five different districts, a soccer academy, as well as\u201d a $50M \u201cnational stadium with a 20,000- to 25,000-seat capacity\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5746173-fifa-invests-gaza-soccer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE HILL, 2\/19<\/a>). FIFA \u201cdid not say where the money would come from\u201d or \u201chow the money would be raised.\u201d It also \u201cdid not say whether the Palestine Football Association had been consulted\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7059472\/2026\/02\/20\/fifa-trump-peace-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THE ATHLETIC, 2\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday \u201cpledged the governing body\u2019s monetary support for rebuilding soccer infrastructure in Gaza.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,3274,77,561,82],"class_list":["post-487720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fifa","tag-international","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}