Calls are growing on social media for international soccer fans to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is being hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
We’re a bit ahead of schedule if we’re trying to repeat the past 100 years on, no?
The Berlin Olympics weren’t until 1936, we’ve got another 10 years still!
Should boycott everything FIFA anyway.
Good
No sports but war instead, unfortunately.
Our government is currently murdering citizens and disappearing brown people. Literally, why would anybody come here. My advice to everybody is that it’s not worth the risk.
I can’t imagine why the average football fan would risk going to the USA from another country right now. Even if they’re straight, white, Christian males.
Go to Mexico or Canada sure. But a fascist country with a stated goal of ethnic cleansing?
You’re over-estimating the intelligence and political engagement of the average football fan.
I didn’t think footballs were capable of either?
Oops.
I mean they were probably equivalent anyway, so I think you were okay.
Of course, where do you think Poland ball came from?
Especially those who can afford to go to the World Cup.
My FILs pal is spending over £100,000 to take him and his 3 pals.
That’s a lot of money to spend on a trip that ends at an El Salvador concentration camp.
He’s a billionaire he’s more likely going to be paying to hunt prisoners from El Salvador for sport if we’re being honest.
Fair point.
Man see ball. Man see Mbappé kick ball good. Man drink beer.
I think its not even the average football fan.
The peaceful suburbanite psyche of the average ‘western’ person hasn’t been penetrated yet, even with all thats happened. Thats in large part due to the media, and how they don’t cover the increasingly serious corruption, murders, and traitors.
A great current example is the sentencing and jailing of that national traitor from Reform UK. It caused barely a blip in the media, just phenomenal there wasn’t a classic british media circus around it, so phenomenal I find it suspicious.
But its surely more than the media, maybe willful ignorance? Simple lack of care, a sort of “thats their business, not mine” attitude? I don’t know, human behaviour is weird when it comes to inconvenience.
So much of this world seems to run on whatever is most convenient, (to be read as least mentally taxing), for the person in the decision makers position at the time. Be it a president, local cop, lawyer, teacher, or any other authority position, it always comes down to was it easier for that person to make that decision, or this decision.
Importantly, i think its the making of a decision not the outcomes of said decisions. So the easy decision could lead to harder to manage outcomes, but the decision maker at the time found that decision easiest to process as opposed a more complex option as the decision to go with.
But this event could be the reason why People wake up. Imagine some crazy fans breaks out in fights in the streets of dallas forinstance (like in russia vm) When ice or national guard begins shooting visitors of mixed countries. Then you’ll see the fans blow up.
Maybe. I don’t know. People have a lot less rights in other countries than their own. Theres a clear propaganda line I can see there, maybe it’d be flimsy, but it doesn’t seem to take much ‘justification’.
Obsessive fans wait 4 years for this, and the last World Cup showed that those idiots will spend thousands to visit your country, even if it’s doing some terrible things.
I’d forgotten about that one. Yeah. Wow.
Please let at least the English fans go, they’re lovely.
Most games, including the finals, are hosted in the USA. This just won’t happen.
American here. Don’t come see us right now. Our place is a fucking mess and we really need to clean up, and it’s gonna be a long, long time before we’re ready for visitors.
Our transportation will be fucked as well
Indeed
The teams should boycott.
Begin with Spain and Brazil.and Brazil
Yeah, we should, but money talks :(
So does being locked out of international tournaments.
That said, if the six or seven really big footballing associations did, that’d fuck the whole tournament. That’d probably work to some degree.
FIFA is getting a lot of good out of that peace prize.
Good with a capital G.
If People from outsite us seriously are attending this event, I loose all hope in humanity. Attending in Mexico or Canada is fine. But don’t cross any boarders to the usa.
Just like all the events with the Saudis, in Qatar, the Winter Olympics in Russia, etc.
Rich people will attend no matter what.
Not just rich people. The world cup in quatar proved that.
Qatar World Cup could be considered different as it was not being overtly anti tourist even though there were restrictions on them. They were welcoming as opposed to whatever US is trying to do.
Its not about how they treated the guests.
Absolutely
I would be genuinely shocked if FIFA notices or feels any impact. Qatar was a huge success for them regardless of their country’s issues.
World Cup in Mexico and Canada. Kick USA out, they don’t understand Football and will terrorize fans.
Edit: They didn’t stop Nazi Germany to host Olympic games in 1936, it is not too late to stop USA to host World Cup and Olympic games while nazis are in power.
Don’t boycott the whole thing, just attend events in Canada and Mexico only.
You should always boycott the FIFA World cup
They were/are kissing Trump’s ass enough. Can’t forget the first (and likely only) FIFA Peace Prize, or when the FIFA big-wig let him hold the trophy like some sycophantic Make-a-Wish.
Hold it? He kept it.
Fair. Good idea.
FIFA gave him a peace prize.
Most games, including the finals, are hosted in the USA. This just won’t happen.
Not sure if the World Cup can still happen of two or more of the host countries are at war with each other
