{"id":4595,"date":"2014-08-21T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2014-08-21T01:53:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:53:43","slug":"spanish-giants-vow-to-fight-transfer-ban-take-fifa-to-cas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/spanish-giants-vow-to-fight-transfer-ban-take-fifa-to-cas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Giants Vow to Fight Transfer Ban, Take FIFA to CAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona will go all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after having a transfer embargo upheld by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan giants had tried to overturn a two-window ban which was handed down in April because of concerns about the international transfer of young players.<\/p>\n<p>The embargo had been put on hold due to an appeal, which allowed Barcelona to buy five players for over \u00a3110m this summer &#8211; including Luis Suarez from Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>But FIFA has announced that the appeal had failed and insisted the Spanish side would not be able to make any more signings until January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However, Barca have vowed to continue the fight and will now take their case to CAS &#8211; the highest sporting legal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona will go all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after having a transfer embargo upheld by FIFA. The Catalan giants had tried to overturn a two-window ban which was handed down in April because of concerns about the international transfer of young players. The embargo had been put on hold due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}