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.
Did you see attendance for the recent world juniors? It was pretty bad. Only USA games were anywhere near “full”. America is a bad sporting nation, they only support themselves.
Fifa suck ass. After their “Please accept our totally bullshit peace price” fiasco. Screw them. Do not do business with those who do business like that with Trump
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.
soccer fans would support satan and buy his tickets if he was the owner of their favorite team even if he was using the money they pay for him to kill their families
This is a double whammy of a boycott with both FIFA and Trump admin. Easiest boycott of my life, but someday I hope I can watch professional soccer and not have to support either of these shifty organizations.
I dunno, seems like FIFA and Trump are two peas in a pod.
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.
if anyone is corrupt it would be the fifa president, and the IOA too.
Not even the top reason to boycott FIFA but whatever works
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.
why do you need to know if you are not watching.
Just so I would know if I had accomplished the task or not. To be safe, I’ll avoid Buffalo Wild Wings for 2026.
3 and 1/2 days ago.
Sadly, people value soccer more than the lives of other humans.
See: People going to Qatar.
Also FIFA prioritises money over ethics.
Or their own, even.
Oh, I do think they value their own lives more than soccer, which might have some impact in the number of visitors to the US purelly because of the constant news about how even Europeans are getting treated there.
Mind you, you are absolutelly right that most won’t put the lives of others (or, more broadly, any kind of ethics, moral or principles) above soccer.
Just go to the matches in Canada and Mexico. They’re suffering under Trump much more than the rest of the world.
Or ideally don’t go to any matches. It’s actually more ethical to pirate stream any FIFA matches lol
Maybe, but actually going to a world cup match in person with thousands of other people supporting your country is probably a pretty special experience that not many people get to do in their lifetimes. Watching it on TV is never going to feel like that, especially watching at home on a pirate stream. It’s probably what I’ll do. And a big part of the reason is that I don’t want FIFA to get any money from me. But, I know I’m missing out on a unique experience.
Well yeah, the '34 Nuremberg rally must have been pretty memorable and impressive to see in person too.
But hardly anybody later in life was like “Hey kids, want to hear about this epic and awesome thing I went to before the war?”
I think a better comparison would be the 1936 Olympics. And plenty of people were really happy to talk about how they were at the Olympics and watched a black American man beating the Nazis on their own turf.
They’re suffering under Trump
If you mean a booming local tourism industry and new trade deals across the world suffering, ok. Long term Trump may be the best thing to happen to Canada and Mexico.
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.
Among football fans there’s no real loyalty to a national team. They don’t give a shit about that. People going to world cup matches are casuals. Hardcore fans will actually be the most likely ones to boycott the world cup.
sports is basically political in nature, it make sense to have 1 side or the other.
Don’t watch it either. Fuck their ad revenue
Football fans are fucking nationalist idiots and simps for online betting, they will watch it.
