{"id":154653,"date":"2026-07-15T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154653"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:17:02","slug":"trading-soccer-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154653","title":{"rendered":"Trading soccer shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Trade Minister Chris Bryant said he was texting his Argentinian counterpart, Fernando Brun, ahead of England\u2019s World Cup clash with the champions on Wednesday \u2014 and plans to exchange soccer shirts with him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to POLITICO in London earlier this week, Bryant said he and Brun had forged a good relationship during trade talks. \u201cI\u2019m quite friendly with him. He\u2019s a really nice guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m teasing him. Obviously Argentina\u2019s bound to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryant has been pushing for a free-trade agreement with Mercosur \u2014 the South American bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and recent joiner Bolivia \u2014 arguing it would be a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/205610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no-brainer<\/a>\u201d after the EU struck its own deal.<\/p>\n<p>The football rivalry, it seems, hasn\u2019t got in the way of the trade relationship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/15\/world-cup-2026\/britain-argentina-trade-relationship-fifa-world-cup-00999890\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Politics, World Cup<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Britain\u2019s Trade Minister Chris Bryant said he was texting his Argentinian counterpart, Fernando Brun, ahead of England\u2019s World Cup clash with the champions on Wednesday \u2014 and plans&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\/154653"}],"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=154653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}