{"id":50828,"date":"2024-04-12T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50828"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:53:22","slug":"fifa-president-urges-fight-against-racism-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50828","title":{"rendered":"FIFA president urges fight against racism in football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIFA president Gianni Infantino called Thursday for a concerted fight against pervasive racism in international football.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After numerous instances of abuse hurled at Real Madrid and Brazil forward Vinicius Junior, among others, Infantino told a meeting of South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) there were &#8220;problems&#8221; in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be united to fight racism,&#8221; he said at an event in Asuncion attended by the presidents of Uruguay and Paraguay, which will host inaugural matches of the 2030 World Cup along with Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vinicius and others are suffering. There&#8217;s no reason for those attacks. We have to be united against violence in the world,&#8221; said Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Spain faced Brazil in a friendly match in Madrid arranged to raise awareness of racism following numerous instances of abuse aimed at Vinicius over recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Before that match, Vinicius said his desire to play football was reducing as incidents of racial abuse aimed at him piled up in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Other players of color have also suffered abuse in Europe, Brazil and elsewhere in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino called Thursday for a concerted fight against pervasive racism in international football. After numerous instances of abuse hurled at Real Madrid and Brazil forward Vinicius Junior, among others, Infantino told a meeting of South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) there were &#8220;problems&#8221; in the sport. &#8220;We have to be united to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1117],"class_list":["post-50828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-fifa-president-urges-fight-against-racism-in-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}