{"id":291474,"date":"2026-04-08T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291474"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:37:55","slug":"fifas-credibility-is-shot-because-it-cant-decide-what-it-wants-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291474","title":{"rendered":"Fifa\u2019s credibility is shot because it can\u2019t decide what it wants to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does Fifa want football to be pure sporting competition floating serenely above politics, or a global force for peace?\u00a0Its current approach is dumbing down, writes Matt Readman. On 21 June 1998,\u00a0Iran\u00a0faced the\u00a0United States\u00a0at the\u00a0Fifa World Cup\u00a0in what was billed as the most politically charged football match in history.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/fifas-credibility-is-shot-because-it-cant-decide-what-it-wants-to-be\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Fifa want football to be pure sporting competition floating serenely above politics, or a global force for peace?\u00a0Its current approach is dumbing down, writes Matt Readman. On 21 June 1998,\u00a0Iran\u00a0faced the\u00a0United States\u00a0at the\u00a0Fifa World Cup\u00a0in what was billed as the most politically charged football match in history.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291474"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=291474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}