{"id":101580,"date":"2011-06-01T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=101580"},"modified":"2011-06-01T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:58:16","slug":"fifa-president-announces-new-world-cup-voting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/01\/fifa-president-announces-new-world-cup-voting-process.html","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President Announces New World Cup Voting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday future World Cup hosts would be decided by all 208 members at the FIFA Congress and not the exclusive 24-man executive committee board, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com\/01062011\/2\/fifa-congress-decide-future-world-cup-hosts-says-blatter.html\"><strong>reports Yahoo! Eurosport<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the future the World Cup will be decided by the FIFA Congress. The executive committee will create a shortlist \u2014 but will make no recommendations only a list \u2014 and the Congress will decide on the venue,&#8221; he said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorfootball.co.uk\/news\/FIFA-president-Sepp-Blatter-announces-new-World-Cup-voting-process-article743392.html\"><strong>according to the UK-based Mirror Football<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blatter, speaking at the 61st FIFA Congress in Zurich, told members that while FIFA had gone through &#8220;troubled waters,&#8221; lessons had been learned and he wanted to take soccer&#8217;s world governing body forward.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday future World Cup hosts would be decided by all 208 members at&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17964,27514,707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}