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‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin
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I dunno, seems like FIFA and Trump are two peas in a pod.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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Oh yeah. Corporate and international sports? Of course they are.
Boycott all professional sports.
Way ahead of you.
If FIFA weren't so incredibly corrupt, by now they'd at least be talking about moving some of the US matches to Mexico and Canada. They have to know that there's a good chance some of the athletes or coaches will be denied entry, or allowed in then thrown in a concentration camp.
This just happened with Ethiopian Runners, who were denied entry. Only 4 of the 18 were allowed in. Meanwhile Eritrea can't send anybody because Trump put a travel ban on their country.
There are plenty of other suitable stadia in Canada and especially Mexico that could accommodate the games, and those countries aren't going to be denying entry to any athletes or coaches.
See, this would be my issue as a football fan. How do we know the games won't simply be rigged by "whoops we denied the visas to everyone we think we can't beat".
I mean, it's the USA, the list of teams that qualified for the world cup that they can definitely beat might be shorter.
If FIFA weren’t so incredibly corrupt...
But as we both know, they are. Probably the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet.
There are probably boxing or MMA organizations that are more corrupt. But FIFA easily beats them in scale and the amount of money sloshing around.
Incidentally, for all the shitty things that the US has done, and all the contempt Americans tend to show towards football / soccer, the one thing you have to admire is that they were the ones to try to actually take on FIFA corruption a while back. They didn't have much long-term impact, but no other country has done anything, so it was still impressive.
It'll be packed with relatively cheap seats for rich Saudis.
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There is no reason to come here. This will be the lamest, boring soccer fan experience that anyone ever had.
Being drunk is public is a crime and the US ICE will detain any foreigner guilty of a crime.
This will be a fully in-control and respectful viewing event with little drinking and no mischief.
The teams will stay in their hotels until it's time to fly home.
That or a whole crowd of folks is going to get gunned down.
Being drunk is public is a crime and the US ICE will detain any foreigner ~~guilty of a crime.~~
ICE is populated with the sort of people who think soccer is un-American and for girls. Most will consider the idea of fucking about with visitors of an international soccer tournament to be entirely consistent with the "Don't Come Here" message they want to send.
This boycott should be in multiple fronts: don't go there watch it, discourage your country's team from playing there, discourage people from even watching the games from afar, call out businesses sponsoring the games... and more importantly, call out anyone planning to do those things as a sponsor of fascism. Because guess what, that's exactly what they are.
In special, sponsors are damn easy to attack with viral propaganda. A 5min shit-edit where the brand in question supports Nazi Germany and/or Hitler is enough, as long as shared by lots of people; businesses hate this sort of association.
I will do my part from America and not watch. When is it?
First match is 11th of June, the final is the 19th of July.
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Sadly, people value soccer more than the lives of other humans.
See: People going to Qatar.
Just go to the matches in Canada and Mexico. They're suffering under Trump much more than the rest of the world.
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Lmao. Wishful thinking the average fans care. Lots of people went to Qatar, lots of people will go to the US.
as bad as the US is, pretty sure Qatar is worse and nobody gave a shit then. Sports fans don't have morals.
Yeah the whole meme of "sportsball is for dummies" kinda bugs me as I have a few ridiculously intelligent friends who are huge sports fans, but there's no denying that the average smartness of sports fans does indeed seem lower. It's not because of something wrong with sports, it's just that they're intrinsically pretty easy to understand. The barrier to entry, intellectually, is lower. In a way, that's great, because it's something anyone can enjoy. But it doesn't bode well for the general fan base's ability to do things like critical thinking.
I was at the final game of Club World Cup last year when that moron was there. People were cheering him. Don't get me wrong, a significant number were booing him and giving him the finger, even on the big LED wall. But I feel like a large number just weren't politically-minded enough to feel anything other than "ermagerd! Its da Pressident!!!1" and cheer for him.
Sports fans will never boycott anything. They are loyal to their teams, not morals nor logic. Can't diverge from the groupthink. Gotta be a team player.
There's multiple psychology papers on this exact subject.
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Pointless until the nations boycott.
Seems like the players need to boycott. Why the fuck are they willing to come here? I understand "contracts" but they could just not play or play horribly. Many players boycotted the Olympics in Germany, the players of the WC should do the same.
Why the fuck are they willing to come here?
Because, contrary to public/fan perception, most top level footballers are not at all principled when there's large amounts of money and prestige on the line.
Plus the whole "team sport" thing has the downside of peer pressure from other players being a real factor.
I remember Virgil van Dijk defending going to Qatar saying something along the line of that there are only a few chances in his career to play at such a tournament. So he allowed himself to neglect all moral questions on selfish reasons.
Later when asked why he wouldn't wear the One World-band is that if he was awarded a yellow card he could risk a game and he couldn't let his team down and claimed that would've been selfish.
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If lots of people cancel their tickets, post pictures of cancelled tickets or stickers and apparel saying "no fascist world cup", and social media is flooded with it, nations are much more likely to pull out. Stop being such a negative Nancy.
People can only do what is in their power to do.
It’s a case of ‘if you don’t like what’s going on, don’t engage’. I’ve boycotted watching the last WC and I’ll boycott watching this too. Will it make a difference? Probably not, not while the majority whinge and fold, but I’m not whining that there was nothing I could do.
I have a lot of respect for people handing in their tickets, at best that’s a shitload of planning and organisation they’ve burned to do the right thing.
Its certainly not pointless. Every lost dollar every lost ratings point makes a difference.
In my experience living in a Football crazy country, Football fans' almost invariably secondarize moral or principles (in they have any) to their love of the game or whatever team they're fans of.
I really don't expect anybody but a handful of people to boycott the World cup as a question of principle, though given the stories coming from there it's possible that a sense of self-preservation will see many people refrain from going to watch games in the US, but that will be purelly driven by selfish reasons rather than "taking a stand for what is right".
Football is one of the greatest sources of tribalist identity around and for most people tribalism sits above any and all moral, ethics or principles (as is obvious for example in how MAGA types are defending those Pedophiles who are "chiefs" of their tribe, or how many people take their moral stand on the Gaza Genocide from whatever their favority party leaders say, rather than it being purelly based on the inherent morality of the actions commited there).
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If I didn't live in the US, I sure wouldn't come here
Going to that thing would be like going to Hitler's birthday party. No self loving human person should be entertaining these terrible people unless they are slaves...I hope you guys who are slaves do find a way out one day.
More like going to the 1936 olympics. Not that I disagree with the conclusion at all...
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Supporting the Trump admin is like the least egregious thing FIFA has ever done.
Agreed, that "Peace Prize" was up there though....
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I was never much of a sports fan, but there is no fucking way I am going to the US right now.
Wise. If American citizens aren't safe in America, how would travelers be?
I agree this should happen.
But why stop there? The rogue state that is the US was made possible and brought to you by regulatory and legal capture by the largest US corporations, who continue to support the current regime. If you continue contributing money to the largest US corporations, they will continue their tyranny.
If you're still buying from and supporting the largest US corporations, you're contributing to the fascist machine that is currently trying to consume and control the entire world's political systems.
Unless your very survival depends on it, if you care about democracy, you need to start thinking about how to live without depending on these corporations and institutions. Otherwise, we're only paying for the privilege of our oppression.
I mean, boycott fifa all the time, they are awful.
Please attend the Canadian and Mexican host cities 2026 FIFA games. 100% attendance at those cities and lower attendance in the US cities will send a better message for moving future events out of the US.
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Stadions will be filled to the brim. For every person who takes a stand there will be millions who would love to go.
The stadions will be packed even if the US becomes an authoritarian monarchy under Trump and there is a pre-game public execution to entertain the crowds.
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This year's World Cu in the USA is very similar to the 1936 Olympics. The only big difference, the US public transportation network to stadiums sucks shit.
Definitely in favor of this idea, and not just because I wasn't looking forward to the large influx of tourists.
But how else will we know who's finally been decided winner of The Football? For this year at least, and indeed, at most.
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