{"id":72476,"date":"2026-04-22T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/trump-envoy-asks-fifa-to-replace-iran-with-italy-at-world-cup-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:57:42","slug":"trump-envoy-asks-fifa-to-replace-iran-with-italy-at-world-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/trump-envoy-asks-fifa-to-replace-iran-with-italy-at-world-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy asks Fifa to replace Iran with Italy at World Cup finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US special envoy Zampolli hopes for Italy involvement<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Doubts remain over Iran\u2019s participation at tournament <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An envoy to Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1ff3a3fd-8d46-4eb4-9b15-0b9183925c6f\">the Financial Times reported on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump and Italy\u2019s prime minister Giorgia Meloni after the two fell out amid the American president\u2019s attacks against Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war, the FT reported, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/22\/trump-envoy-seeks-to-replace-iran-with-italy-at-world-cup-says-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US special envoy Zampolli hopes for Italy involvement Doubts remain over Iran\u2019s participation at tournament An envoy to Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump and Italy\u2019s prime minister Giorgia Meloni &#8230; <a title=\"Trump envoy asks Fifa to replace Iran with Italy at World Cup finals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/trump-envoy-asks-fifa-to-replace-iran-with-italy-at-world-cup-finals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump envoy asks Fifa to replace Iran with Italy at World Cup finals\">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-72476","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\/72476","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=72476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}