{
  "id": 2136056,
  "title": "A World Cup With 211 Teams? FIFA Explored New U-15 Football Festival Before Dropping Private Investment Plans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/a-world-cup-with-211-teams-fifa-explored-new-u-15-football-festival",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-20T12:22:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/sports/a-world-cup-with-211-teams-fifa-explored-new-u-15-football-festival-before-dropping-private-investment-plans"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Imagine a football tournament where every FIFA member gets a place. No qualifiers. No early exits. No country left out. That was the idea behind a proposed FIFA Under-15 'World Cup' that could have brought together all 211 FIFA member nations in a youth football festival inspired by baseball's famous Little League World Series, as per reports from the New York Times . But there was another big…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}