I’m glad I don’t watch football.
That would mean that the DFB has to have a backbone, because let’s be absolutely clear… they are, in point of fact, nothing but great, supine, protoplasmic invertebrate jellies
You missed money-hungry.
Ah the same as the KNVB in the Netherlands, then?
Van Dijk said on Sunday he would be uncomfortable having to start the match on a yellow card, which would put him at risk of being sent off for a minor offence.
But he is comfortable playing in stadiums built by corpses. Shocking how money reduces basic humanity.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2022/11/knvb-turns-yellow-in-face-of-bookings-for-onelove-armband/
Professional football is all about money. Don’t be surprised if you don’t find any morals in it. The only conviction you might find people in those organisations having is one for tax fraud.
Oliver Welke had a great bit about the FIFA, at the time they had an ethics commission over the corruption scandals and his comment was ‘Ethics commission of the FIFA is like marriage counseling in a brothel’
Can’t you just arrange all the boycotters’ games in an alternative country?
I’d personally prefer to see individuals boycott the world cup over politicians forcing their country to withdraw. Would also look good if stadiums in Mexico and Canada were filled to the brim, high viewers world wide while the teams play in empty stadiums in the US, barely any company paying to advertise, nobody buying all the US merch and Trump handing out the trophy in the US and then have the winner fly to Mexico or Canada to celebrate.
If the German’s are saying to boycott football then you know there is some serious shit going down.
well… lets see if they really do it…
As if. The DFB and football officials in general have long since lost their backbone and are now only interested in money. FIFA would probably sue the DFB/UEFA (whatever) for billions in damages.
If this sport were still about decency and morality, the bald guy would have been gone long ago and they wouldn’t have gone to Qatar. There was a lot of talk beforehand about “how it’s not really compatible with our values”. But they all went there anyway, enjoyed their lives in the sun and then didn’t say another word about it. Just like hypocrites do.
As a former season ticket holder, I turned my back on the sport completely years ago. One reason for this was the people who run the sport. And every time I read something like this, I’m glad I did.
An opportunity to take down both Trump and FIFA. Hell yes. FIFA are corrupt beyond belief anyway so who cares, them giving Trump that golden statue was probably the least objectionable thing they’ve done recently.
Also I really really really want to see them trying big up a match between Haiti and the Maldives because all they have left is the little teams that no one cares about.
They’re gonna damage the prestige of the FIFA World Peace Award!!
I was thinking last night how we should have a new soccer organization and ignore this corrupt pos one.
Every european football association or organisation out there are too damn pussy to do what is right. Every EU team should just quit the world cup. It is FIFAs own fucking fault. For time after time, choosing money over fan experience. They should had done the right Thing long ago. But this all started in Russia 2018.
Yeah, because FIFA is such a beacon of shining light. We like soccer, fuck the ORG and all it stands for. Trump has nothing to do with soccer, or FIFA. I certainly would not travel to the country for it though. You know ICE will be parked outside checking everyone. No thanks.
Also, have you seen the ticket prices? Cat 4 tickets, the cheapest tickets, are generally 10x the 2022 prices https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/world-cup-2026-tickets-cheapest-expensive/d3fd676c4f35b53961e35c38
The cheapest tickets for the opening match has gone from 55USD to 560USD.
So on top of the threat of ICE, and before them CBP at the airport, where you can be required to unlock your phone for inspection, you also get to pay like 2 days wages, to sit furthest from the field with a light pole in the way. GTFO, but there’s enough suckers to not reasonable.
In a blatant money grab FIFA has even expanded the cup to 48 teams.
This is so fucking painful. I hope they themselves didn’t believe they were actually making some ‘powerful statement’.
This was mainly seen as at least doing something, rather then being shut down completely. To be fair the only team to actually make a more powerful statement was Iran, which was mainly due to everybody else doing nothing.
If this is the best that can be mustered, that’s just painful.
That’s not to say the Dutch position wasn’t even more pathetic. They wanted to wear a so-called rainbow captain’s armband which didn’t even actually depict a rainbow, but they were too afraid to do even this over potentially getting a yellow card.
It’s still the most powerful statement by a football team that I am aware of, so there is that.
I wouldn’t mind something more powerful, like the abolishment of FIFA or straight up found an alternative organization.
Until that is happening I’m not gonna watch the World Cup, not buy merch and I’m not even going to wear the merch that I already own.
I might use my fixed vuvuzela to mess with people that are watching.
It is not even close. Drogba was a pretty powerful voice in ending the civil war in the Ivory Coast.
Boycot FIFA ,dump Trump
No one boycotted Qatar. They are not going to boycott USA.
What about Canada and Mexico?
I don’t think they would be prepared to take over it fully in time, so it would probably just be cancelled.
Honestly, a boycott of the US after going along with Qatar means even more in the discussion.
Because it means the US is considered to be worse than a theocratic oligarchy
Define “worse.” Qatar definitely didn’t threaten to invade EU territory and annex it.
That would be one example of the US being worse.
Just in general, the US seems to treat both Europe and its own population worse, compared to Qatar.
And that’s assuming all the slavery accusation of Qatar are 100% true.
No but they did build the entire World Cup stadium complexes with actual slaves. Only a few hundred died and everyone still went
Just have the European teams doing it in Europe.
If they get South America on board then that’s basically every heavyweight team. I don’t know how the rest of South America felt about the attack on Venezuela, but it seems worth looking into if a European boycott actually does go ahead
True.
Isn’t that Euro cup?
It’s the president of St. Pauli who said that. St. Pauli is strictly antifascist and has recently formed a cooperative to buy the stadium, so it’s not really representative for German soccer officials in general (though still a good thing to start this discussion).
St. Pauli are based as fuck. Proper football club
