{"id":18121,"date":"2026-07-24T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/australian-mayor-calls-for-funding-freeze-for-soccer-club-over-offensive-banners\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:54:48","slug":"australian-mayor-calls-for-funding-freeze-for-soccer-club-over-offensive-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/australian-mayor-calls-for-funding-freeze-for-soccer-club-over-offensive-banners\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian mayor calls for funding freeze for soccer club over offensive banners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The mayor of an Australian municipality has called for government funding to be suspended for Preston Lions FC, a Melbourne club associated with the North Macedonian community, until investigations are completed into offensive anti-Greek and misogynistic banners displayed by a group of supporters during a National Premier Leagues Victoria match.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/diaspora-politics\/1310523\/australian-mayor-calls-for-funding-freeze-for-soccer-club-over-offensive-banners\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of an Australian municipality has called for government funding to be suspended for Preston Lions FC, a Melbourne club associated with the North Macedonian community, until investigations are completed into offensive anti-Greek and misogynistic banners displayed by a group of supporters during a National Premier Leagues Victoria match. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}