{"id":16444,"date":"2015-02-09T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:38:15","slug":"sepp-blatter-approved-for-fifa-presidency-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/sepp-blatter-approved-for-fifa-presidency-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Blatter approved for FIFA presidency race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16445\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16445\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA's Sepp Blatter\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-185x185.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-87x87.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-166x166.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-212x212.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-235x235.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-97x97.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sepp-Blatter-66x66.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIFA&#8217;s Sepp Blatter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Fifa electoral committee has approved incumbent Sepp Blatter and three rivals for an election for the presidency of football&#8217;s global governing body to be held on May 29.<br \/>\nBlatter, who has been in the post since 1998, is opposed by Dutch federation president Michael van Praag, Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, a Fifa vice-president, and Portuguese football great and former Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Luis Figo.<br \/>\nAccording to the AFP, a Fifa statement issued earlier today said all four had passed &#8220;integrity checks&#8221; so they could be allowed into the election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fifa electoral committee has approved incumbent Sepp Blatter and three rivals for an election for the presidency of football&#8217;s global governing body to be held on May 29. Blatter, who has been in the post since 1998, is opposed by Dutch federation president Michael van Praag, Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, a Fifa vice-president, and Portuguese football great and former Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Luis Figo. According to the AFP, a Fifa statement issued earlier today said all four had passed &#8220;integrity checks&#8221; so they could be allowed into the election. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}