{"id":40042,"date":"2026-07-20T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40042"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:53:37","slug":"boos-as-trump-infantino-enter-the-field-for-world-cup-trophy-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/boos-as-trump-infantino-enter-the-field-for-world-cup-trophy-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Boos as Trump, Infantino enter the field for World Cup trophy ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Boos descended from the stands as \u200bUnited States (US) President Donald Trump and FIFA \u200cChief Gianni Infantino took to the field for the World Cup trophy ceremony at New \u200bYork New Jersey stadium on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Spain \u200bbeat defending champions Argentina 1-0 to win \u2060the title.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The boos had stopped when \u200bTrump and Infantino presented the players and \u200bcoaches with their medals before they handed out the trophy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trump, who arrived at the stadium by \u200bhelicopter, stayed on the podium with \u200bthe Spanish players before being invited to the side as captain Rodri \u200cwas \u2060about to lift the trophy in front of a barrage of photographers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trump was at the centre of the biggest controversy of the World \u200bCup when \u200bhe called \u2060Infantino to ask him to review a red card handed \u200bto US striker Folarin Balogun in \u200ba \u2060group stage match against Bosnia and Herzegovina.<br \/>\nBalogun&#8217;s one-game red-card ban was suspended and \u2060he \u200bplayed against Belgium in the \u200blast 16, although the US lost 4-1.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21260,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-40042","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Spain \u200bbeat defending champions Argentina 1-0 to win \u2060the title.","published_date":"","news_description":"Spain \u200bbeat defending champions Argentina 1-0 to win \u2060the title.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40043,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40042\/revisions\/40043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}