{"id":635829,"date":"2026-04-29T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635829\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:35:07","slug":"afghan-womens-refugee-team-allowed-to-play-in-fifa-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635829\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women&#8217;s refugee team allowed to play in FIFA tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3EC7VYUAJNEUZNHTEZLT3MCQMM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">An Afghanistan women\u2019s refugee team has been granted eligibility for international competitions, some five years after national team players fled their country\u2019s Taliban rule.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PJJVCRIYZNCC5AAFHRQMLZ5KAM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The FIFA Council, meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, agreed on Tuesday to amend its regulations to recognize the refugee team, which plays under the name Afghan Women United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Afghanistan women\u2019s refugee team has been granted eligibility for international competitions, some five years after national team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,204955,237625,561,82],"class_list":["post-635829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fifa-womens-world-cup","tag-soc-fifa-afghanistan-women","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635829","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=635829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}