{"id":9311,"date":"2010-12-07T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:39:47","slug":"fifa-not-considering-world-cup-voting-system-change-712201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fifa-not-considering-world-cup-voting-system-change-712201\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA not considering World Cup voting system change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9313\" title=\"sepp-blatter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/sepp-blatter-280x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/sepp-blatter-280x197.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/sepp-blatter.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>FIFA, football\u2019s world governing body, is not considering a reform of the voting system for choosing World Cup hosts despite the controversy surrounding last week\u2019s decision for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Thursday, FIFA&#8217;s executive committee voted to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar, decisions that prompted complaints that politics had played a large a part in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Valcke, FIFA general secretary, said: &#8220;We have not sat down to discuss a reform of the voting system. It&#8217;s not part of our discussions at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it is a political decision,\u201d he added. \u201cBut overall, I think reactions were positive. The decision was fairly well received by football fans. It shows that football is open to the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is a great footballing country and deserves it. And the Middle East is part of the family of football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valcke also said the bidding process to chose who would stage the 2026 tournament would not take place before 2018.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA, football\u2019s world governing body, is not considering a reform of the voting system for choosing World Cup hosts despite the controversy surrounding last week\u2019s decision for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,127],"tags":[478,13314,13312,16755,13313],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-executive-committee","tag-voting-system","tag-world-cup-2014","tag-world-cup-host"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","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=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}