{"id":1722,"date":"2009-12-01T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:40:56","slug":"fifa-reject-ireland-last-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fifa-reject-ireland-last-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA reject Republic of Ireland&#8217;s last hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1724\" title=\"republic or Ireland portest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/republic-or-Ireland-portest1.jpg\" alt=\"republic or Ireland portest\" width=\"466\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/republic-or-Ireland-portest1.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/republic-or-Ireland-portest1-280x156.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Football&#8217;s world governing body FIFA have rejected the latest attempt by the Republic of Ireland to be included in World Cup 2010 South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FIFA have said Ireland will not be involved in the World Cup 2010 South Africa as the 33rd team.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland had filed a complaint to FIFA over the controversial handball of Thierry Henry in the playoffs which resulted on France drawing 1-1 which was enough for them to win the playoffs 2-1 on aggregate following their earlier 1-0 win in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerome Valcke secretary general said on Tuesday \u201cit was impossible to change the structure of the tournament as it would open Fifa to a host of other complaints of teams that felt they were cheated during qualifying\u201d he also added &#8220;I would not say it is a nonsense but it is impossible.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Monday that the Republic of Ireland\u2019s football governing body wrote a letter asking him for the Republic of Ireland to be let into the World Cup 2010 in South Africa because of Henry&#8217;s handball, which led directly to William Gallas&#8217; decisive goal in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Hand of Henry&#8221; caused a storm of protest, particularly in the Emerald Isle.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was even discussed in the Irish Parliament as the game was called to be replayed which was publically endorsed by the culprit Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/henry-almost-quit-france-due-to-handball\" target=\"_blank\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click to see other news on the handball incident<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football&#8217;s world governing body FIFA have rejected the latest attempt by the Republic of Ireland to be included in World Cup 2010 South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,127],"tags":[2678,478,2685,2684,2686,2022,381,2682,2680,2024,2679,2681,2023,2683,77193,325,16755],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sport","tag-2010-south-africa","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-ireland-last-hope","tag-fifa-reject-ireland-last-hope","tag-fifa-reject-republic-of-ireland-last-hope","tag-henry-handball","tag-ireland","tag-irish-parliament","tag-jerome-valcke","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-republic-of-ireland-playoff","tag-sepp-blatter","tag-thierry-henry","tag-thierry-henry-handball","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2010-south-africa","tag-world-cup-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}