{"id":125,"date":"2026-09-03T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/fifa-alleges-uefa-orchestrated-smear-campaign-against-infantino\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:33:00","slug":"fifa-alleges-uefa-orchestrated-smear-campaign-against-infantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/fifa-alleges-uefa-orchestrated-smear-campaign-against-infantino\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Alleges UEFA Orchestrated Smear Campaign Against Infantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has leveled serious allegations against UEFA, accusing the European football governing body of initiating a coordinated &#8220;smear campaign&#8221; against President Gianni Infantino. The organization has stated it is prepared to take legal action in response.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations stem from the failed effort to sell a portion of the FIFA World Cup brand to private investors, a move that was ultimately abandoned. FIFA views the backlash surrounding this aborted deal as an organized attack orchestrated by UEFA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has formally accused UEFA of conducting a smear campaign targeting Gianni Infantino, vowing legal action over the botched attempt to sell World Cup stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[332,318,334,208,333,11,10],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-legal","tag-uefa","tag-uk","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}