{"id":578415,"date":"2026-08-08T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:16:08","slug":"two-weeks-that-rocked-fifa-how-gianni-infantino-unravelled-day-by-day-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578415\/","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks that rocked Fifa: how Gianni Infantino unravelled, day by day | Fifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 7 August<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Allies begin to surface as Mexico and Argentina follow Africa\u2019s governing body in rallying round \u2013 but others join the backlash. Norway\u2019s FA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/07\/lise-klaveness-norwegian-fa-fifa-president-gianni-infantino-resign\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calls for him to go<\/a> and makes a new ethics complaint against Infantino on multiple fronts, including over his alleged breaches of Fifa\u2019s rules on political neutrality. Infantino, meanwhile, takes a mini-\u200abreak, arriving in Colombia for the inauguration of the hard-right president Abelardo de la Espriella, a key Trump ally. Infantino tells an audience there: \u201cIt is a joy to be here today. Football is joy, football is happiness, football is unity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gianni Infantino speaks during a visit to a sports complex in Cali, Colombia, on 7 August. Photograph: Jaime Saldarriaga\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday 7 August Allies begin to surface as Mexico and Argentina follow Africa\u2019s governing body in rallying round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-578415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578415","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=578415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}