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    German FA official wants 2026 World Cup boycott talks

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    3. MedicalHair69 on

      If Europe won’t even collectively boycott Eurovision, what makes you think they will boycott this? This is just hollow threats and posturing, nothing more. Nothing will come of this.

    4. SurroundTiny on

      US here – if one country’s organization boycotted, and the event was held without them, what would that do to the groups? What are their chances of getting cash from FIFA after that?

    6. Raj_ryder_666 on

      Ok i can see why some people might be in favor of this but do remember we all watched the world cup when it was hosted in qatar and russia.

    7. Swimming-Obligation9 on

      I don’t think there will be a boycott. Pretty sure they held a World Cup in Argentina during a military dictatorship.

    8. Internal_Sun_9632 on

      With the price of the tickets, it might look like a boycott when half the games are empty stadiums.

    9. AdOriginal1084 on

      I already know lots of people who have bought tickets accommodation etc going to away international games in football is normally amazing i hope if this does happen they get reimbursed by the respective FA’s fucking 800 pound a ticket and the accommodation is even more mental

    10. Normal-Level-7186 on

      This guys from St Pauli Hamburg and is super political. He is the president of St Pauli where Che Guevara is like their unofficial mascot. They’re known for hanging banners like “no one is illegal.” Very progressive for what it’s worth not everyone is going to go along with this far left stance.

    16. madhatterlock on

      Haha, just lip service. Same way you boycotted the World Cup in Qatar, after using slave labor. At least you will be able to find beer.. Also, its the Americas, so not just the USA.

    17. Shoddy_Squash_1201 on

      When was the last World Cup there wasn’t a call for boycott?
      It doesn’t really seem to be hurting them.

      At least I haven’t hurt anything about it in the past, but I also don’t really care about football.

    18. ChoosenUserName4 on

      The European teams should all boycott this fascist fest and the unbelievably corrupt FIFA, but they’re not going to. This will be my third world cup where I will not watch. I hope they all lose.

    19. Special-Audience-426 on

      Get the South Americans in on the boycott and everyone will follow.

      We can have a replacement tournament elsewhere. 

    21. CountFew6186 on

      Please do. Trump will be insulted, and 99% of Americans won’t care because we don’t follow soccer.

    22. AccountDramatic6971 on

      As a non European, when will the EU Crack down on FIFA? They’re blatantly corrupt and not to mention the verbal hand job the ceo gave to Trump

    23. DouglasQUAID88 on

      Russia and Qatar got selected in the most obvious corrupt selection process ever in FIFA, but now people draw the line?? Yea, fuck off, I’ll watch it.

    25. OptimizationBot on

      Do it. Please. We need this man out of the White House and unless rich folks start to lose a lot of money nothing will happen.

    26. arruda82 on

      The message would be great and way more important today than the event itself. It’d be nice to see only half a dozen of countries aligned with trump participating and making a fool of themselves.

    28. Blubbolo on

      Either we boycott it now or after it started and tons of fans get sent to their concentration camps by ICE just because they aren’t white, have an accent or don’t speak English.

      Because that’s what will happen, 100%.

    29. OldSplit4942 on

      Yes, please. You cannot one day threaten us, and then the next day act as if nothing happened. Some strong signal needs to come now.

    30. bxzidff on

      There should be a boycott, but it should not be official.

      Just let the visitor rates plummet and make the whole ordeal more unprofitable without any statements. That would be an obvious message, and also avoid losing face if it does not happen. Cultural distancing and soft politics should be the responsibility of the public, while officials should focus on more hard politics, like digital sovereignty and reactive trade countermeasures

    31. PlasticComb7287 on

      I strongly support the boycott, despite being a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo and our entire national team . That’s how it is in life; sometimes you have to make decisions through pain. (He will say to his friend Donald: “Sorry, buddy, it just happened that way..”

      I strongly support the boycott, despite being a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo. That’s how it is in life; sometimes you have to make decisions through pain.

    32. FearTheReaper73 on

      Things went from bad to worse when Platini was suspiciously denied FIFA presidency and Infantino given the job instead.

    33. kawag on

      All of this is a good idea.

      – boycott FIFA? Great. I’m all for it.
      – boycott the USA? Great. I’m all for it.

      It sucks for Canada and Mexico, but I’m sure they also understand the situation very well.

    35. ganbaro on

      In Qatar no other participant considered a boycott and Germany ended up just doing a symbolic protest, got memed on social media.

      I guess we collectively woke up, by now? We have seen major sports events going to China, Russia, Qatar, and now Trump USA in the last two decades…they all deserved some boycots by democracies IMHO

      Better late, than never.

      Albeit there are levels to this. Russia conducts terrorist attacks and murders on our soil, the US threatens us with war. Qatar and China did not.

    36. Jpatrickburns on

      Speaking as an American, please do this. Don’t reward our decline into fascism.

      But also aware that FIFA are a buncha ass-kissing enablers, so doubt this will happen.

    38. suicidemachine on

      I’m all in. If my country Poland doesn’t qualify, at least we will have an argument why it was a good choice not to quality without offending the Americans /s

    41. clauEB on

      But German FA was ok going to a World Cup hosted by a country that criminalizes gay people? I’m never watching a worldcup match.

    42. Gruffleson on

      Is it too late to just drop FIFA and USA and have another tournament without USA? Without USA.

    44. robc2562 on

      I was excited to see a world cup since it’s hosted here. But with all the stuff this dumbass is doing I don’t want it happening here, it should be something fun that brings the world together and it doesn’t deserve to be hosted here.