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
    3·
    56 minutes 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…

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
    312·
    5 hours ago

    This is the most credible call to boycott FIFA I think I’ve ever seen, and a boycott is the most credible solution to FIFA’s rampant corruption I think anyone has proposed, and we definitely do need to fix FIFA’s rampant corruption, but boy does it suck that we’re punishing the women for men’s bad behavior (I am biased because the women’s World Cup is my favorite World Cup)

    Along the lines spelled out by Uefa, the proposed boycott would begin with next year’s Women’s World Cup.

    • mbp@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      Based as fuck of UEFA to take on FIFA. I agree this is the best chance at actually making a difference in the sport but fuck I’m really into women’s soccer right now and was really looking forward to the Women’s World Cup. Punished again.

    • cute_astronaut@feddit.dkEnglish
      41·
      5 hours ago

      I totally agree, the Danish women team qualified and I was actually looking forward to see them play the world cup, but I also said to my wife that they would most likely be the ones to suffer from this because it’s “cheaper” to boycott the women’s world cup than boycotting the men which sucks on many levels.

  • lookitsjustin@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    4 hours ago

    Infantino and FIFA couldn’t even be arsed to try and hide the corruption anymore. The Trump effect in full force.

    • krypt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      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

    • sober_monk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      5 hours ago

      I was similarly ticked off by the halftime show during the final. Keep that shit contained to the Super Bowl.

          • DrCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            3 hours ago

            I swear a good number of American sports fans don’t actually like their sports. Everything I hear that’s “good” about the Super Bowl is external and not the actual game

            • huey_m@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              2 hours ago

              Baseball fans are pretty ride or die. I think it’s the necessary induction into the sport due to the arcane nature of it, similar to cricket fans.