{"id":211811,"date":"2025-10-30T00:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-are-european-football-clubs-sportswashing-libyan-abuses\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:43:16","slug":"libya-are-european-football-clubs-sportswashing-libyan-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-are-european-football-clubs-sportswashing-libyan-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Are European Football Clubs Sportswashing Libyan Abuses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Sporting Clubs Should Not Launder the Reputation of Unaccountable Abusive Groups<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">On the evening of October 10, two European football giants played a friendly match amid much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EQiuFwXbyjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fanfare<\/a> in the newly renovated <a href=\"https:\/\/stadiumdb.com\/stadiums\/lby\/benghazi_international_stadium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benghazi International Stadium<\/a>, to the spectators&#8217; delight. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.atleticodemadrid.com\/noticias\/friday-10-october-at-18-00-cest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inter.it\/en\/news\/atletico-madrid-vs-inter-friday-10th-october-international-friendly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale Milan<\/a> 4-3 in a penalty shootout to take home the &#8220;Reconstruction Cup.&#8221; The teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6696818\/2025\/10\/10\/atletico-madrid-inter-barcelona-libya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> received \u20ac3 million each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The catch? The match was hosted by Khalifa Hiftar, commander of the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.un.org\/en\/S\/2024\/914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abusive<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290453.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting Clubs Should Not Launder the Reputation of Unaccountable Abusive Groups On the evening of October 10, two European football giants played a friendly match amid much fanfare in the newly renovated Benghazi International Stadium, to the spectators&#8217; delight. Alt\u00e9tico Madrid beat Internazionale Milan 4-3 in a penalty shootout to take home the &#8220;Reconstruction Cup.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":211812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601811:bb784a32a217b5b2eb655e9851914072:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[8396,258,256,9300,6442,3299,4711,892,6718,257,254,52725],"class_list":["post-211811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clubs","tag-european","tag-football","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyan","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sportswashing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601811:bb784a32a217b5b2eb655e9851914072:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}