FIFA VP pushes back on Trump comments about moving World Cup games from 'dangerous' cities

[LetMyPeopleVote]

FIFA will not let trump move these games

Link to tweet

https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-fifa-trump-montagliani-e279b7f9c76afd751ac61643dfa1527a

LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump was reminded Wednesday that FIFA, not any government, ultimately decides which cities will host 2026 World Cup games.

Trump suggested last week he could declare cities “not safe” for the 104-game soccer tournament next summer and alter a detailed hosting plan that FIFA confirmed in 2022. It includes NFL stadiums near New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The 11 U.S. host cities, plus three in Mexico and two in Canada, are contracted with FIFA which would face significant logistical and legal issues to make changes in the eight months before the June 11 kickoff.

“It’s FIFA’s tournament, FIFA’s jurisdiction, FIFA makes those decisions,” the soccer body’s vice president Victor Montagliani said Wednesday at a sports business conference in London.

The Canadian president of North American regional soccer body CONCACAF said the sport is “bigger” than any current political debate.

[malaise]

1. Unbelievable

He never stops

[tanyev]

2. Ooh, Little Lord Tauntleroy isn't going to like that one bit.

[Prairie Gates]

3. AP Sanewashing at its Best: Trump suggested the World Cup might be moved away from CHICAGO

There are no World Cup games scheduled for Chicago. AP conveniently excludes this little artifact of Trump's worsening dementia.

[RockRaven]

4. They ought to fuck off and right out of the US entirely.

Those corrupt FIFA shitgibbons are absurd to demand that the best players in the world and their fans subject themselves to abuse at the hands of the US government in order to compete in or attend a quadrennial event. Go hold your event some place which will treat participants and attendees with dignity.

[ananda]

5. Why they would hold the games anywhere here is beyond me.

I'm even wondering why any foreigner would come here now.