{"id":50058,"date":"2026-11-05T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50058"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:21:40","slug":"maduro-questions-infantinos-eligibility-for-fifa-re-election","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/maduro-questions-infantinos-eligibility-for-fifa-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro questions Infantino\u2019s eligibility for FIFA re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_x_panel-StoryContent\">\n<div id=\"x_x_StoryContent\">\n<div id=\"x_x_EditorViewObject\">\n<div id=\"x_x_StoryTitle\">\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A fresh debate has erupted over the future leadership of world football, with former International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Governance Committee Chairperson Miguel Maduro arguing that Gianni Infantino cannot stand for re-election in 2027.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Maduro says FIFA&#8217;s statutes clearly limit presidents to three terms in office and believes Infantino has already reached that threshold.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The comments come as FIFA&#8217;s Presidential election nomination deadline approaches, with governance campaigners also calling on member associations to challenge Infantino&#8217;s eligibility.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the controversy, the FIFA president continues to enjoy strong support from football confederations around the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15353,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-50058","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Miguel Maduro is arguing that Infantino cannot stand for re-election in 2027","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50058","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\/50058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50059,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50058\/revisions\/50059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}