{"id":513561,"date":"2026-07-07T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:20:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-belgium-boosted-by-trump-intervention-captain-tielemans-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513561\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Belgium boosted by Trump intervention, captain Tielemans says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Balogun was named in the United States line-up after Fifa suspended his one-match ban for a sending-off in the Round of 32 but he made little impact in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">The shock Fifa decision came after an intervention by US President Donald Trump in a move that drew condemnation across the football world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe played with real grit,\u201d Tielemans said. \u201cWe wanted to get off to a good start \u2013 something we\u2019d been missing earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe knew that if we put them under pressure, they\u2019d make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Go all in to unlock every Fifa World Cup 2026 match with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\">TVNZ+ Event Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Balogun was named in the United States line-up after Fifa suspended his one-match ban for a sending-off in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,255091,1558,23299,31579,3595,13381,10542,57246,36862,26663,255092,56818,111,139,69,12860,312,213,9939,16349,7187,124443,252030,1865,2179,9938,137558,377,252029],"class_list":["post-513561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-balogun","tag-been","tag-belgium","tag-boosted","tag-by","tag-captain","tag-cup","tag-devils","tag-fifa","tag-fired","tag-folarin","tag-intervention","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-revealed","tag-says","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-surrounding","tag-team","tag-thrashed","tag-tielemans","tag-today","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-uproar","tag-world","tag-youri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}