{"id":1293,"date":"2012-04-12T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2012-04-12T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:07:17","slug":"12-4-2012-fifa-obliges-u-23-to-participate-in-the-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"12.4.2012: FIFA obliges &#8216;U 23&#8217; to participate in the Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information of InsideWorldFootball (5.4.2012) FIFA decided that the participation in Olympic Games is compulsory for U23 players. According to FIFA this decisions is\u00a0covered by existing rules that state &#8220;a duty to release players exists on the basis of a special decision by the FIFA Executive Committee&#8221;. ECA Vice-President Gandini\/AC Milan commented that this decision came &#8216;completely out of the blue&#8217;. ECA President Rummenigge\/FC Bayern attended a recent FIFA strategy meeting at which the under 23 issue never arose. In Football the Olympic Games are not part of the International Calendar &#8216;and therefore the participation has never been compulsary&#8217;, added Gandini. Obviously FIFA took the decision without discussing the issue with the stakeholders concerned. The ECA board will discuss the FIFA decision during a board meeting in Munich next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to information of InsideWorldFootball (5.4.2012) FIFA decided that the participation in Olympic Games is compulsory for U23 players. According to FIFA this decisions is\u00a0covered by existing rules that state &#8220;a duty to release players exists on the basis of a special decision by the FIFA Executive Committee&#8221;. ECA Vice-President Gandini\/AC Milan commented that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumclubhandball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}