Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/1/27/blatter-urges-fifa-world-cup-boycott-over-trump-administration-policies

29 Comments

  1. Well yeah especially if you’re not within the ‘acceptable’ current USA ICE color spectrum

  2. Loose_Skill6641 on

    funny statement considering if corrupt Blatter was still in FIFA he’d give trump another peace prize

  3. Royal-Hunter3892 on

    You can’t risk getting choked , manhandled pinned down and get shot by the ICE .

    Wonder what if people actually boycott the World Cup as a protest against FIFA Peace prize winner Trump .

  4. Don’t miss the chance to be harassed for three hours by U.S. airportofficers who have never traveled abroad before.

    The main questions are;
    “Why are you bringing so many clothes? Aren’t you bringing them to live in the US?”(for Instagram, stupid), “Why do you have so much money? Are you trying to settle down the US illegally?”(traveling abroad is an expensive hobby), “Why are you so good at English? Did you study it because you want to live in the US?”

    Also high income career women who went for vacation may be questioned about whether they came to the United States to engage in prostitution.

    This is something that actually happened to people in my country.

  5. BrofessorFarnsworth on

    How the fuck are we in a timeline where someone outcorrupted Sepp fucking Blatter

  6. ReferenceMany1600 on

    I’m very keen to know what Norwegian supporters will do. They haven’t experienced a World Cup qualification for almost three decades, but at the same time, they are really not happy about what Trump is doing to their neighbors and generally oppose his politics. I wonder what mental gymnastics they will make to bridge personal desire and political conviction.

  7. America under the grip of an authoritarian bully who has given his blessing to untrained assholes to assault and kill who they please seems like a fine time to go there as a foreigner.

    I mean, it’s going wonderfully for Americans so it should be just fine if you’re coming from another country. Especially if your skin colour is whatever shade of brown. Which is much of global football fandom

  8. Why would anyone travel there right now?

    I fully expect the seats to be half empty and the US not host again anytime soon

  9. UnCommonSense99 on

    I assume this is an attempted grift by Sepp Blatter. “Bribe me and I’ll stop saying nasty things” I can’t believe he’s doing it out of the goodness of his heart.

  10. I have a better idea. How bout no one travels there for the World Cup? Especially not the players

  11. Overall-Yellow-2938 on

    Come to the US and unlock your entire online presence to the customs officer to then get detained for anything not to his liking. Or even just stuff that translated funny because of shitty Translation Software. Or because you dont look like someone they think people from your country should Look like. Or because you Look exactly like someone from your home country. Bad luck If its one they dont like.

    Somehow you dont have the right to see a judge anymore so how long you stay in the gulag is anyones guess. Private companys make big bank for every day you are there so dont expect it to be too short.

    Somehow you made it in the US. Great! Now you can be stopped anywhere by badly trained ICE ageds with exactly zero hiring criterion. Repeatedly so because you get lucky once there doesntt mean you get lucky repeatedly. If they detain you..yeah No right to see a judge so… Hope you used all your vacstion time just to be safe for this tripp.
    Might not be enough.

  12. Dizzy_Elderberry_486 on

    He was himself arrested for fraud, by the FBI. No wonder he doesn’t want the Cup in the US.