{"id":407736,"date":"2026-04-24T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:58:07","slug":"italy-dismisses-replacing-iran-at-the-world-cup-after-suggestion-by-trump-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407736\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy dismisses replacing Iran at the World Cup after suggestion by Trump official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4MBFOZ5EABCUJPKPIXMLDXF75Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">ROME \u2014 Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7WTX2RKQGRHEHOZQDW4T4OVWRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Iran has not withdrawn from the World Cup, and the team is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-iran-fifa-c54f5f8ff8bbf62fcf757c72a1203a6d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to play<\/a> in the U.S. despite the war in the Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-iran-infantino-4854d5588b7985d2fb0a6c638f8e42b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA has insisted<\/a> its group stage games near Los Angeles and in Seattle will go ahead as planned in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME \u2014 Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8316,122,85,117780,46,192732,19711,105,12526,126],"class_list":["post-407736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-soc-wcup-iran-italy","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}