{"id":589703,"date":"2026-08-11T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589703\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:32:33","slug":"terrible-mistake-to-replace-fifas-infantino-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589703\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrible mistake&#8217; to replace FIFA&#8217;s Infantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump backed FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who is in hot water over allegations of a workplace affair and criticism of a failed private investment scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FIFA would be making a terrible mistake if, for any reason, they even considered replacing President Gianni Infantino,&#8221; Mr Trump said in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>The US president called the Italian-Swiss lawyer &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and said he &#8220;presided over the most successful World Cup, by four times, ever presented&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he is gone, it will never be as successful or profitable again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s backing of the FIFA president contrasts with the response of US Soccer, which issued a statement critiquing Mr Infantino alongside Canada Soccer and football organisations in Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Infantino, who faces re-election next March, has denied allegations of wrongdoing, and FIFA for their part has backed its besieged president, calling the backlash &#8220;a concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine&#8221; the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Other football organisations, including the Confederation of African Football and South American governing body CONMEBOL, share Mr Trump&#8217;s position in supporting the FIFA president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump backed FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who is in hot water over allegations of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-589703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589703","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=589703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}