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.
Boycot FIFA ,dump Trump
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.
Couldn’t they just boycott the matches that take place in the US?
That’s what I was thinking. Just refuse to enter the US. And if they’re forced to, when the match starts both teams should just stand there the 90 minutes and then leave. Or if they’re forced to play, put on a shit performance and have a boring 0-0 draw for every game played in the US.
Can’t you just arrange all the boycotters’ games in an alternative country?
PS: Canada is right there, just avoid crossing the border into ICEland.
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.
They’re gonna damage the prestige of the FIFA World Peace Award!!
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
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
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’
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.
I was thinking last night how we should have a new soccer organization and ignore this corrupt pos one.
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.
Germany has a moral duty to speak up much louder against the crimes against humanity that ICE is committing.
Given how popular football is there, this is actually quite loud if they do move to a boycott.
It would be an earthquake. but let us be realistic: that’s never gonna happen. there is way too much money involved.
Every day money becomes less valuable
To whom? Seems like money is still doing most of the talking these days. I’d argue more so than usual in fact.
Germany’s not even willing to officially say that perhaps Israel should handle things differently in Gaza.
No one boycotted Qatar. They are not going to boycott USA.
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.
No but they did build the entire World Cup stadium complexes with actual slaves. Only a few hundred died and everyone still went
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.
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.
Been waiting a year for this to happen.
If Europe didn’t get the wakeup call, it’s now or never for sovereignty and maintaining the semblance of rule of law, and economy.
Just have the European teams doing it in Europe.
If they get South America on board then that’s just about 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?
I’m glad I don’t watch football.
