White House Fifa taskforce chief defends Argentina footballers, saying US believes in free speech<\/p>\n
The White House has backed Argentina\u2019s footballers who displayed a banner<\/a> supporting their country\u2019s claim to the Falklands Islands after their World Cup semi-final victory against England.<\/p>\n In a fractious match in Atlanta on Wednesday, some players held up a banner after Argentina\u2019s 2-1 win<\/a> that said: \u201cLas Malvinas son Argentinas<\/em>\u201d \u2013 using the country\u2019s term for the South Atlantic islands.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White House Fifa taskforce chief defends Argentina footballers, saying US believes in free speech The White House has backed Argentina\u2019s footballers who displayed a banner supporting their country\u2019s claim to the Falklands Islands after their World Cup semi-final victory against England. In a fractious match in Atlanta on Wednesday, some players held up a banner … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76239","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\/76239","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=76239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}