{"id":1812,"date":"2009-12-03T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2009-12-03T05:53:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:53:46","slug":"fifa-thierry-henry-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fifa-thierry-henry-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa may ban Thierry Henry at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thierry-henry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1820\" title=\"Thierry Henry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thierry-henry-280x189.jpg\" alt=\"Thierry Henry\" width=\"280\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thierry-henry-280x189.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thierry-henry.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Football&#8217;s governing body have opted to maintain the system of one referee with two assistants and a fourth official for the finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, they will open an inquiry into whether to bring in technology or have extra officials.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was discussed in the wake of last month&#8217;s controversial play-off between France and the Republic of Ireland, won by France with a goal which stemmed directly from a Thierry Henry handball which went unpunished by the officials.<\/p>\n<p>And today Fifa also announced they will refer Henry&#8217;s infamous handball to their disciplinary committee, meaning the France captain could miss the start of next summer&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa president Sepp Blatter told a news conference in Cape Town: &#8216;The disciplinary will open a case on the behaviour of the player Thierry Henry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked why Fifa were making a special case of Henry, he added: &#8216;This is a matter of the disciplinary committee and it&#8217;s not a question of this player or another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a blatant unfair playing and was shown all around the world, but I don&#8217;t know what the outcome will be.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football&#8217;s governing body have opted to maintain the system of one referee with two assistants and a fourth official for the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[2789,2788,2681,2791,2023,2787,2786,2784],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-cape-town","tag-fifa-president-sepp-blatter","tag-sepp-blatter","tag-sepp-blatter-thierry-henry","tag-thierry-henry","tag-thierry-henry-world-cup","tag-thierry-henry-at-world-cup","tag-thierry-henry-fifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}