{"id":22,"date":"2017-01-11T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/minoritytribune\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-01-11T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T10:38:33","slug":"fifa-approves-48-team-world-cup-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/fifa-approves-48-team-world-cup-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA approves 48 team World Cup for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ZURICH: FIFA\u00b4s ruling council on Tuesday unanimously approved an expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams in 2026, with a format of 16 groups of three nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FIFA Council unanimously decided on a 48-team #WorldCup as of 2026: 16 groups of 3 teams,&#8221; a tweet from FIFA\u00b4s official account said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a major coup for the body\u00b4s president Gianni Infantino who has made enlarging football\u00b4s showcase event the centrepiece of his young administration.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial proposal had faced criticism from some of the sport\u00b4s most powerful voices, including warnings that it would dilute the quality of play and overburden already exhausted players.<\/p>\n<p>But Infantino had in recent weeks voiced confidence that his flagship project would be approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: FIFA\u00b4s ruling council on Tuesday unanimously approved an expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams in 2026, with a format of 16 groups of three nations. &#8220;The FIFA Council unanimously decided on a 48-team #WorldCup as of 2026: 16 groups of 3 teams,&#8221; a tweet from FIFA\u00b4s official account said. The decision marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}