{"id":38212,"date":"2025-04-08T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/fifa-has-used-us-soccer-as-a-cash-cow-and-gives-very-little-back-leander-schaerlaeckens\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:58:28","slug":"fifa-has-used-us-soccer-as-a-cash-cow-and-gives-very-little-back-leander-schaerlaeckens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/fifa-has-used-us-soccer-as-a-cash-cow-and-gives-very-little-back-leander-schaerlaeckens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa has used US soccer as a cash cow \u2013 and gives very little back | Leander Schaerlaeckens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Fifa\u2019s own policies and hunger for monetization that has helped prevent American soccer from growing organically<\/p>\n<p>Colin Cowherd peered down from his studio desk perched high above the chairs assigned to the guests on his Fox Sports talkshow. He had a simple question for Fifa president Gianni Infantino. More of a demand, really.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me something about America that you really love,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5gZrBsCMKG4?t=588\">Cowherd said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/08\/fifa-infantino-us-soccer-cowherd-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Fifa\u2019s own policies and hunger for monetization that has helped prevent American soccer from growing organically Colin Cowherd peered down from his studio desk perched high above the chairs assigned to the guests on his Fox Sports talkshow. He had a simple question for Fifa president Gianni Infantino. More of a demand, really. &#8230; <a title=\"Fifa has used US soccer as a cash cow \u2013 and gives very little back | Leander Schaerlaeckens\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/fifa-has-used-us-soccer-as-a-cash-cow-and-gives-very-little-back-leander-schaerlaeckens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fifa has used US soccer as a cash cow \u2013 and gives very little back | Leander Schaerlaeckens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}