Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.caEnglish
    8·
    2 hours ago

    55-zip. Now that’s a high scoring game!

    Seriously though, I only watched the WC for the first time this year, and I don’t know the history behind FIFA corruption. What I observed over the past month was:

    • FIFA forbidding host cities from running any other events during the WC (I’ve never heard of such arrogance)
    • some serious price gouging around tickets which was no doubt helped by the former
    • reports people couldn’t even bring their own water bottles to a summer event in freakin’ Florida (this is just criminal)
    • the Trump card scandal
    • allegations of certain teams (notably Argentina) being favoured in the officiating

    And now, of course, selling the whole organization out at the highest levels. So how did we get here? Or do I not want to know…

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      29 minutes ago

      It has been there for a while. You’ve got an organization that makes deals worth billions and filled with people from countries where corruption is more tolerated. Some of it can be outright bribes, others can be gifts to the home country in their name.