{"id":836999,"date":"2026-07-31T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836999\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:01:09","slug":"european-soccer-threatens-to-boycott-fifa-competitions-over-privatization-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836999\/","title":{"rendered":"European soccer threatens to boycott FIFA competitions over privatization plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA \u2014 the European soccer governing body \u2014 says its 55 teams will sit out all FIFA competitions for as long as a plan to allow investors to buy 20% of the organization remains in place. The boycott would include the upcoming Women\u2019s World Cup and the next men\u2019s tournament \u2014 to be hosted by this summer\u2019s winner, Spain, along with Portugal and Morocco. FIFA argues the private cash will help soccer thrive around the world. Now, it must decide whether to possibly lose Europe or nix the plan altogether. The World\u2019s Gerry Hadden reports from Embrun, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UEFA \u2014 the European soccer governing body \u2014 says its 55 teams will sit out all FIFA competitions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-836999","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\/836999","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=836999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}