{"id":10113,"date":"2020-11-12T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=71485"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:04:49","slug":"fifa-vice-president-greg-clarke-resigns-from-his-role-a-few-days-after-resigning-as-fa-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/fifa-vice-president-greg-clarke-resigns-from-his-role-a-few-days-after-resigning-as-fa-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA vice-president Greg Clarke resigns from his role; a few days after resigning as FA chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA vice-president Greg Clarke has resigned from his role on Thursday morning, a few days after stepping down as chairman of the FA( Football Association). The resignation from the Englishman came in the wake of referring to black footballers as <strong>\u201ccoloured\u201d<\/strong> while giving evidence to MPs. Clarke\u2019s earlier intentions were tp stay-on as FIFA vice-president until UEFA Congress election in March <strong>\u201cpurely at the request of UEFA president Aleksander Cerefin to protect the UEFA vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, UEFA has since confirmed Clarke proposed he should step down with immediate effect. A UEFA statement read: <strong>\u201cFollowing a telephone call this morning between the UEFA President and Greg Clarke, they agreed with Greg Clarke\u2019s proposal that he should step down with immediate effect from his position as a UEFA representative on the FIFA Council.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA vice-president Greg Clarke has resigned from his role on Thursday morning, a few days after stepping down as chairman\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":32621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[985,984,986,178],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fa","tag-fifa","tag-football-association","tag-uefa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}