{"id":68225,"date":"2018-06-06T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68225"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:56:06","slug":"argentina-cancels-upcoming-friendly-football-match-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68225","title":{"rendered":"Argentina cancels upcoming friendly football match with\u00a0Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buenos Aires, July 6 (TNS): Argentina\u2019s national football team has cancelled an upcoming friendly match with\u00a0<u>Israel<\/u>, Argentine news sources reported.<\/p>\n<p>Argentinian sports website Minutouno reported that Saturday&#8217;s game in Jerusalem had been &#8220;suspended&#8221; amid an &#8220;escalation of violence, threats and criticism&#8221; directed at captain &#8216;Leo&#8217; Messi.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, a major contender to win the\u00a0World Cup this summer, has made four previous pre-World Cup visits to Israel since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The fixture between the two teams was set to be\u00a0<u>played<\/u>\u00a0in occupied Jerusalem&#8217;s Teddy Stadium on June 9, which is built on land that was once a Palestinian village that was destroyed in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli media reported that in light of this latest development, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak to his Argentinian counterpart Mauricio Macri by telephone.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador of Palestine in Argentina, Husni Abdel Wahed, had expressed his opposition to the friendly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This match would be similar to us celebrating &#8230; the occupation of Malvinas,&#8221; he told Radio Cooperativa on Tuesday, referring to the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Abdel Wahed went on to say that the match was part of the celebrations of Israel&#8217;s 70th anniversary since its\u00a0establishment in 1948, after hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their villages and lands by Zionist paramilitaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Buenos Aires, July 6 (TNS): Argentina\u2019s national football team has cancelled an upcoming friendly match with\u00a0Israel, Argentine news sources reported. Argentinian sports website Minutouno reported that Saturday&#8217;s game in Jerusalem had been &#8220;suspended&#8221; amid an &#8220;escalation of violence, threats and criticism&#8221; directed at captain &#8216;Leo&#8217; Messi. Argentina, a major contender to win the\u00a0World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68227,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68225\/revisions\/68227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}