{"id":256079,"date":"2026-01-21T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:13:09","slug":"how-donald-trumps-greenland-obsession-could-spark-a-world-cup-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256079\/","title":{"rendered":"How Donald Trump\u2019s Greenland obsession could spark a World Cup boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One at the White House last night on his way to Davos. Photo: AP Photo\/Alex Brandon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a90fc14a-5224-49b5-8d2a-eaab352921c8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One at the White House last night on his way to Davos. Photo: AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Senior officials at the top of Fifa and Uefa are \u201cvery concerned\u201d about the potential impact of the United States interest in Greenland on the World Cup and wider game, sources say, as football federations try to tread their own difficult balance in traversing a diplomatic crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There have been no official meetings, to go with how there won\u2019t yet be any public statements. Everyone is instead looking to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and wondering exactly what he is thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One at the White House last night on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[969,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-256079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}