European nations have unanimously agreed to boycott all Fifa competitions until football’s global governing body drops plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup.
In an emergency meeting on Thursday, Uefa member associations voted 55-0 to boycott.
I was pissed off that USA had implemented advertising breaks in the world cup. Fuck FIFA.
I was similarly ticked off by the halftime show during the final. Keep that shit contained to the Super Bowl.
That itself is the value they are pursuing. Taking control of a popular sport to sway public opinion is hella effective. Especially when they are targeting eu
Infantino and FIFA couldn’t even be arsed to try and hide the corruption anymore. The Trump effect in full force.
Someone that cares about soccer should explain to me how Infantino hasn’t been lynched already. I’ve never seen quite that level of corrupt sycophant publicly displayed before, let alone in charge of a sports league, and that’s not a high bar to jump.
Because there’s no real unity thus far among the stake holding groups (supporters, players, clubs and associations) in regards to what to do about it as a whole. Corruption to a certain degree in the game has been a thing for a while and it’s been more or less tolerated, to a point. As for supporters, people are just simply reluctant to stop watching and they should, I guess, if they want to do something about it.
The reality is, it will take a unified action by the players, clubs and associations that would really move the dial. That’s hard though because several of them have stakes on dodgy actions themselves and know that change through the main associations might stop that.
A lack of unity and pathway, as much as incentive really. Now the incentive has come along.
Blatter has been just as bad for decades. But Blatter is throwing money and tickets at EU and SA politicians.
*football
Ok, but this should have happened over a decade ago because of Sepp Blatter’s corruption.
Blatter did at least try to hide the corruption
Just an observation. Even Israel voted for this. What is going on? Don’t they always vote for what the Americans vote for?
The football association mightn’t (yet, anyway) reflect the government’s view on this if they have one.
I guess just accept that as a bellwether to how bad this is.
Let’s see what happens. Not very hopeful though. Money always wins at the end.
Well I certainly hope all the major associations threaten to pull out. That’s the important one, not singular nations.
I’m waiting for Trump to impose tariffs on UEFA
