{"id":1777953,"date":"2022-12-16T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777953"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:33:26","slug":"fifa-rejects-zelensky-asking-them-to-share-message-of-peace-before-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fifa-rejects-zelensky-asking-them-to-share-message-of-peace-before-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Rejects Zelensky Asking Them to Share &#8220;Message of Peace&#8221; Before World Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffifa-rejects-zelensky-asking-them-to-share-message-of-peace-before-world-cup-final%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/article_Screenshot_2022-12-16_at_13.29.43.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>FIFA has rejected a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to share a &#8220;message of peace&#8221; before this Sunday&#8217;s World Cup final between France and Argentina, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/16\/football\/zelensky-fifa-intl\/index.html\">reports<\/a> that Zelensky\u2019s office proposed sharing a message before the final in Qatar and were taken aback by the negative response.\u00a0\u201cWe thought FIFA wanted to use its platform for the greater good,\u201d a source from Zelensky&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Ukrainian officials have not completely given up hope on some kind of arrangement, with the two sides reportedly in a discussion about how the platform can be used to promote the greater good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky, whose country has been under Russian invasion since February, has repeatedly tried to use major world events to spread the message of its struggle against Putin&#8217;s forces. These have included, but are not limited to, appearances via video link at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-11-15-22\/h_2000641bc805f27761fb4df811a6870a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G20 summit<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/03\/entertainment\/zelensky-grammys\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grammy Awards<\/a>,\u00a0and even the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/18\/entertainment\/cannes-volodymyr-zelensky\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>. He has also given interviews to various journalists and entertainers, including Sean Penn and David Letterman, and hosted an array of figures and dignitaries at his residence in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 World Cup was held in Russia, a decision that raised eyebrows among other nations bidding for the tournament about potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/06\/sports\/soccer\/qatar-and-russia-bribery-world-cup-fifa.html\">corruption<\/a>.\u00a0However, Russia was ejected from the tournament&#8217;s qualifying process earlier this year as a response to the war in Ukraine, following the lead of many other sporting competitions which banned Russian players or sides from competing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has rejected a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to share a &#8220;message of peace&#8221; before this Sunday&#8217;s World Cup final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,7476,9721,8762,5776,4228,5009,3819,4175,8630],"class_list":["post-1777953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-final","tag-message","tag-peace","tag-rejects","tag-report","tag-share","tag-zelensky"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}