{"id":697100,"date":"2026-06-11T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697100\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:17:11","slug":"there-is-no-scandal-fabio-cannavaro-denies-undignified-usa-security-checks-after-video-of-uzbekistan-players-being-searched-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/697100\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There is no scandal&#8217; &#8211; Fabio Cannavaro denies &#8216;undignified&#8217; USA security checks after video of Uzbekistan players being searched sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These scenes come at a time when the World Cup build-up is plagued by numerous crises, including the denial of entry to top Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, severe visa delays for teams like Iran, soaring ticket prices, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ca\/lists\/england-world-cup-warm-up-delayed-by-florida-storm\/blt2d872ca068054672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">warnings over extreme heat and storm disruptions in the US<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, taking to Instagram to address the mounting speculation and &#8220;misleading headlines,&#8221; the former Ballon d&#8217;Or winner was firm in his stance. He argued that the protocols are no different from those experienced by regular travellers, albeit conducted in different locations to accommodate elite athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw photographs on the front pages of the newspapers showing the searches we were subjected to at the airport, as members of the Uzbek national team. I\u2019ve also seen misleading headlines, so I\u2019d like to set the record straight,\u201d Cannavaro wrote. \u201cThese were routine, standard checks. People don\u2019t realise one thing: when World Cup national teams travel, they don\u2019t go through the airport terminals like ordinary travellers, but are taken directly to the tarmac in buses reserved for the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These scenes come at a time when the World Cup build-up is plagued by numerous crises, including the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[301936,156304,6802,301937,403,99,73754,84938],"class_list":["post-697100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-f-cannavaro","tag-friendlies","tag-netherlands","tag-netherlands-vs-uzbekistan","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uzbekistan","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}