{"id":5342,"date":"2026-05-01T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:28:30","slug":"incredibly-awkward-moment-infantino-attempts-to-secure-israel-palestine-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5342","title":{"rendered":"Incredibly awkward moment Infantino attempts to secure Israel-Palestine handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>The moment was captured on video.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>At FIFA\u2019s annual congress, a video has gone viral of president Gianni Infantino attempting to play peacemaker between the Israeli and Palestinian soccer federations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Sources told The Athletic that a photo opportunity was pre-planned, though no one was willing to &#8216;back that up after the event on record&#8217;. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The president of the Palestine Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, refused to shake hands with the president of the Israel Football Association and pose for a photo, despite all Infantino&#8217;s effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:0\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>At the annual congress, Iran were the only country not represented as Fifa met on Thursday in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Infantino, president of world football&#8217;s governing body, spoke though that the country &#8220;will be participating&#8221; in this summer&#8217;s World Cup, to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He added: \u00a0&#8220;Of course, Iran will play in the United States of America. The reason for that is simple, because we have to unite. We have to bring people together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The viral clip from the congress can be viewed below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:1\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Incredibly #awkward #moment #Infantino #attempts #secure #IsraelPalestine #handshake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment was captured on video. At FIFA\u2019s annual congress, a video has gone viral of president Gianni Infantino attempting to play peacemaker between the Israeli and Palestinian soccer federations. Sources told The Athletic that a photo opportunity was pre-planned, though no one was willing to &#8216;back that up after the event on record&#8217;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5384,2365,5508,5504,5505,5507,1556,5506],"class_list":{"0":"post-5342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-attempts","9":"tag-awkward","10":"tag-handshake","11":"tag-incredibly","12":"tag-infantino","13":"tag-israelpalestine","14":"tag-moment","15":"tag-secure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}