{"id":4977,"date":"2015-12-22T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2015\/12\/22\/fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years\/"},"modified":"2015-12-22T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:06:00","slug":"fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Bans Soccer President Sepp Blatter For 8 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/12\/22\/460656777\/fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tom Goldman<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, FIFA said Blatter&#8217;s ban was tied to a $2 million payment he made to FIFA Vice President Michel Platini. FIFA says that Blatter was not able to provide a &#8220;legal basis&#8221; for that payment.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/12\/22\/460656777\/fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"FIFA Bans Soccer President Sepp Blatter For 8 Years\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/12\/22\/460656777\/fifa-bans-soccer-president-sepp-blatter-for-8-years?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, FIFA said Blatter&#8217;s ban was tied to a $2 million payment he made to FIFA Vice President Michel Platini. FIFA says that Blatter was not able to provide a &#8220;legal basis&#8221; for that payment.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}