{"id":531054,"date":"2026-03-12T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531054\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:56:23","slug":"players-union-rep-speaks-out-as-six-iranian-soccer-players-accept-australian-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531054\/","title":{"rendered":"Players union rep speaks out as six Iranian soccer players accept Australian asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players union rep speaks out as six Iranian soccer players accept Australian asylum\n                <\/p>\n<p>President of FIFPRO Asia\/Oceania, Beau Busch, weighs in after members of Iran\u2019s women\u2019s national soccer team were labeled wartime traitors for not singing the country\u2019s anthem during a match in Australia. Several players sought asylum rather than return home, while others went back to Iran. Busch says that the women are experiencing an \u201cincredibly difficult time\u201d as concern grows for the safety of the players who returned to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players union rep speaks out as six Iranian soccer players accept Australian asylum President of FIFPRO Asia\/Oceania, Beau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-531054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531054","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=531054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}