{"id":427834,"date":"2023-02-28T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427834"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:35:59","slug":"ex-fifa-excom-member-criticizes-lima-appointment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ex-fifa-excom-member-criticizes-lima-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FIFA ExCom member criticizes Lima appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">World soccer&#8217;s governing body FIFA\u2019s choice of Brazilian fashion icon Adriana Lima as its first global fan ambassador five months before the Women\u2019s World Cup was described on Tuesday as \u201ctone deaf\u201d by the former leader of the soccer body\u2019s task force for women\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seriously, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFA<\/a>, is this the fan engagement ambassador we need as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWWC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FIFAWWC<\/a> approaches? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tonedeaf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tonedeaf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7O2WHRr6g\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/a7O2WHRr6g<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s2S6wvJmFx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s2S6wvJmFx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; moya dodd (@moyadodd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moyadodd\/status\/1630426973343473664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously, FIFA, is this the fan engagement ambassador we need as the (Women\u2019s World Cup) approaches?\u201d wrote Moya Dodd, who was part of the co-hosting bid campaign for her native Australia and New Zealand, on her Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Brazilian supermodel\u2019s appointment to \u201cdevelop, promote and participate in several global initiatives\u201d was announced by FIFA on Monday hours before the former Victoria\u2019s Secret runway model helped present the fan prize in Paris at its annual award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Former FIFA executive committee member Dodd, a longtime advocate for women\u2019s soccer, used the hashtag \u201ctonedeaf\u201d and posted the glamor photo from the profile of Lima\u2019s Twitter account that has 2.4 million followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World soccer&#8217;s governing body FIFA\u2019s choice of Brazilian fashion icon Adriana Lima as its first global fan ambassador five months before the Women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427835,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17367],"news_category":[14236],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The choice of the fashion icon was described as \u201ctone deaf\u201d","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427834"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427834"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}