Europe shows limited appetite for boycott as 2026 World Cup becomes a political football
January 26 – German football executive Oke Göttlich has urged Europe to consider a boycott of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
His comments come following the US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric over Greenland and broader foreign policy moves that have escalated tension with Europe.
Göttlich, the president of Bundesliga club St. Pauli and a vice president of the German Football Association, told Germany media: “What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s?
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