{"id":31211,"date":"2026-06-23T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/will-war-overshadow-the-world-cup-bbc-newscast\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:20:23","slug":"will-war-overshadow-the-world-cup-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/will-war-overshadow-the-world-cup-bbc-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"Will War Overshadow the World Cup? | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5LYBYbv19yM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In this episode we look at what the US-Iran war means for Iran\u2019s team and what strict Visa laws mean for players and fans.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got together with Americast\/Newscast and Football Daily for three special episodes on what could be the most political World Cup ever.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Zurcher and Marianna Spring join from Americast, and 5 Live football commentary legend John Murray is on from Football Daily.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews #WorldCup <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Iran\u2019s presence at the World Cup<br \/>\n02:20 The threat to Iranian players?<br \/>\n05:00 Infantino\u2019s view on Iran at the World Cup<br \/>\n08:40 The USA visa bans<br \/>\n12:30 ICE agents<br \/>\n15:30 Safety in Mexico<br \/>\n17:00 The popularity of soccer in the States<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5LYBYbv19yM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we look at what the US-Iran war means for Iran\u2019s team and what strict Visa laws mean for players and fans. We\u2019ve got together with Americast\/Newscast and Football Daily for three special episodes on what could be the most political World Cup ever. Anthony Zurcher and Marianna Spring join from Americast, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31213,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31211\/revisions\/31213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}