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It’s the president of St. Pauli who said that. St. Pauli is strictly antifascist and has recently formed a cooperative to buy the stadium, so it’s not really representative for German soccer officials in general (though still a good thing to start this discussion).
Thanks for the correction, that is a huge difference xD
St. Pauli are based as fuck. Proper football club
That would mean that the DFB has to have a backbone, because let’s be absolutely clear… they are, in point of fact, nothing but great, supine, protoplasmic invertebrate jellies
Oliver Welke had a great bit about the FIFA, at the time they had an ethics commission over the corruption scandals and his comment was ‘Ethics commission of the FIFA is like marriage counseling in a brothel’
You missed money-hungry.
Ah the same as the KNVB in the Netherlands, then?
Van Dijk said on Sunday he would be uncomfortable having to start the match on a yellow card, which would put him at risk of being sent off for a minor offence.
But he is comfortable playing in stadiums built by corpses. Shocking how money reduces basic humanity.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2022/11/knvb-turns-yellow-in-face-of-bookings-for-onelove-armband/
Professional football is all about money. Don’t be surprised if you don’t find any morals in it. The only conviction you might find people in those organisations having is one for tax fraud.
Germany has a moral duty to speak up much louder against the crimes against humanity that ICE is committing.
Given how popular football is there, this is actually quite loud if they do move to a boycott.
It would be an earthquake. but let us be realistic: that’s never gonna happen. there is way too much money involved.
I’m a german football fan and I love the World Cup and the Euros. That being said, I would love it even more if the DFB actually pulled out of the World Cup. We have to stop hosting these events in fascist countries.
BUT, if only the DFB would pull out it would certainly not be an earthquake. Big football nations not qualifying for the WC is certainly news, but it does happen and I’m certain the event would go on as usual, even without Germany. Now, every UEFA member pulling out, that would be an earthquake felt around the world. But I feel like we have better chances of the orange turd exploding spontaneously than that happening.
@wuzzlewoggle @Reznik
👍 I fear the best we’ll be able to do is everyone switch off all #WorldCup games played in the US.
I will, anyway.
Every day money becomes less valuable
To whom? Seems like money is still doing most of the talking these days. I’d argue more so than usual in fact.
Money? No.
It’s the perceived power and willingness to get up and do bad things under disguise of keeping status quo.
And most people won’t stop them.
Germany’s not even willing to officially say that perhaps Israel should handle things differently in Gaza.
No one boycotted Qatar. They are not going to boycott USA.
Honestly, a boycott of the US after going along with Qatar means even more in the discussion.
Because it means the US is considered to be worse than a theocratic oligarchy
Define “worse.” Qatar definitely didn’t threaten to invade EU territory and annex it.
No but they did build the entire World Cup stadium complexes with actual slaves. Only a few hundred died and everyone still went
That would be one example of the US being worse.
Just in general, the US seems to treat both Europe and its own population worse, compared to Qatar.
And that’s assuming all the slavery accusation of Qatar are 100% true.
What about Canada and Mexico?
I don’t think they would be prepared to take over it fully in time, so it would probably just be cancelled.
Boycot FIFA ,dump Trump
They’re gonna damage the prestige of the FIFA World Peace Award!!
As if. The DFB and football officials in general have long since lost their backbone and are now only interested in money. FIFA would probably sue the DFB/UEFA (whatever) for billions in damages.
If this sport were still about decency and morality, the bald guy would have been gone long ago and they wouldn’t have gone to Qatar. There was a lot of talk beforehand about “how it’s not really compatible with our values”. But they all went there anyway, enjoyed their lives in the sun and then didn’t say another word about it. Just like hypocrites do.
As a former season ticket holder, I turned my back on the sport completely years ago. One reason for this was the people who run the sport. And every time I read something like this, I’m glad I did.
Can’t you just arrange all the boycotters’ games in an alternative country?
PS: Canada is right there, just avoid crossing the border into ICEland.
I’d personally prefer to see individuals boycott the world cup over politicians forcing their country to withdraw. Would also look good if stadiums in Mexico and Canada were filled to the brim, high viewers world wide while the teams play in empty stadiums in the US, barely any company paying to advertise, nobody buying all the US merch and Trump handing out the trophy in the US and then have the winner fly to Mexico or Canada to celebrate.
If the German’s are saying to boycott football then you know there is some serious shit going down.
well… lets see if they really do it…
I was thinking last night how we should have a new soccer organization and ignore this corrupt pos one.
Every european football association or organisation out there are too damn pussy to do what is right. Every EU team should just quit the world cup. It is FIFAs own fucking fault. For time after time, choosing money over fan experience. They should had done the right Thing long ago. But this all started in Russia 2018.
An opportunity to take down both Trump and FIFA. Hell yes. FIFA are corrupt beyond belief anyway so who cares, them giving Trump that golden statue was probably the least objectionable thing they’ve done recently.
Also I really really really want to see them trying big up a match between Haiti and the Maldives because all they have left is the little teams that no one cares about.
Couldn’t they just boycott the matches that take place in the US?
That’s what I was thinking. Just refuse to enter the US. And if they’re forced to, when the match starts both teams should just stand there the 90 minutes and then leave. Or if they’re forced to play, put on a shit performance and have a boring 0-0 draw for every game played in the US.
Just have the European teams doing it in Europe.
If they get South America on board then that’s just about every heavyweight team. I don’t know how the rest of South America felt about the attack on Venezuela, but it seems worth looking into if a European boycott actually does go ahead
True.
Isn’t that Euro cup?
This is so fucking painful. I hope they themselves didn’t believe they were actually making some ‘powerful statement’.
This was mainly seen as at least doing something, rather then being shut down completely. To be fair the only team to actually make a more powerful statement was Iran, which was mainly due to everybody else doing nothing.
If this is the best that can be mustered, that’s just painful.
That’s not to say the Dutch position wasn’t even more pathetic. They wanted to wear a so-called rainbow captain’s armband which didn’t even actually depict a rainbow, but they were too afraid to do even this over potentially getting a yellow card.
It’s still the most powerful statement by a football team that I am aware of, so there is that.
I wouldn’t mind something more powerful, like the abolishment of FIFA or straight up found an alternative organization.
Until that is happening I’m not gonna watch the World Cup, not buy merch and I’m not even going to wear the merch that I already own.
I might use my fixed vuvuzela to mess with people that are watching.
It is not even close. Drogba was a pretty powerful voice in ending the civil war in the Ivory Coast.
Good for them & very commendable. Having said that, the situations aren’t comparable, not even close.
I can guarantee you that there will be a much stronger reaction by the German team in case of civil war breaking out in Germany. There have been many statements against the new rise of Nazis by multiple teams in Germany.
What we are looking for is a statement against human rights violations in another country, especially the host. Since the next hosts are the Fascist States of America and Saudi Arabia there will be plenty of opportunity.
