{"id":152868,"date":"2026-06-12T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152868"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:16:22","slug":"the-epic-story-of-how-trump-seized-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152868","title":{"rendered":"The Epic Story of How Trump Seized the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was undecided with whether I never wanted to see these people ever again, because we had a pretty good idea of what had happened,\u201d said former U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati about a stunning FIFA vote that handed the World Cup to Qatar over a favored American bid. \u201cOr if I want to start bidding the next hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/06\/12\/fifa-trump-world-cup-00957640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full<\/a>inside story of how FIFA\u2019s rejection of a U.S. effort to host the 2022 World Cup sparked bitterness, indictments, a reorganization of soccer\u2019s governing body and, ultimately, a North American World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-2026\/donald-trump-world-cup-fifa-00960640\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics \u201cI was undecided with whether I never wanted to see these people ever again, because we had a pretty good idea of what had happened,\u201d said former U.S.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}