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(170,588 posts) Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:11 PM 16 hrs ago

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

Source: AP

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.

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

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FIFA VP pushes back on Trump comments about moving World Cup games from 'dangerous' cities (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago OP

Move them all to Canada and Mexico. No ICE detentions. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 16 hrs ago #1

Yep, I'm terrified tRump will do something really stupid during the games. groundloop 16 hrs ago #2

And then there's the Olympics. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 16 hrs ago #3

Yep. EarthFirst 16 hrs ago #5

FIFA should make contingencies RainCaster 13 hrs ago #9

Now he thinks he's ruler of everything. C Moon 16 hrs ago #4

This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #6

Little point in it being here at all angrychair 15 hrs ago #7

F word would be simpler. Tetrachloride 15 hrs ago #8

So NY was fine for the '25 Ryder Cup and LA is fine for the '28 Olympics, but not for the World Cup? SunSeeker 11 hrs ago #10

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,163 posts)

1. Move them all to Canada and Mexico. No ICE detentions. . . . . nt

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:15 PM

16 hrs ago

groundloop

(13,327 posts)

2. Yep, I'm terrified tRump will do something really stupid during the games.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:47 PM

16 hrs ago

In fact I'd think it's almost a certainty that he will.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,163 posts)

3. And then there's the Olympics. . . . nt

Reply to groundloop (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:47 PM

16 hrs ago

EarthFirst

(3,843 posts)

5. Yep.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:00 PM

16 hrs ago

He’s already made his threats against the NFL and the Super Bowl.

Time for FIFA to make a contingency to move the games hosted in the United States.

He will make himself the spectacle one way or another…

RainCaster

(13,147 posts)

9. FIFA should make contingencies

Reply to EarthFirst (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:01 PM

13 hrs ago

That include moving the games completely out of the US. They should also have an open public conversation with the ICC about how to file a criminal complaint against TSF if he does get ICE involved in any amount.

C Moon

(13,220 posts)

4. Now he thinks he's ruler of everything.

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Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:50 PM

16 hrs ago

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angrychair

(11,204 posts)

7. Little point in it being here at all

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:38 PM

15 hrs ago

Tickets are several hundred dollars or more a person.
Most foreign travelers are not coming to the US
The US men's team is mid at best and the only reason they are even in the World Cup is because they are one of the three host nations.

It would probably be better for everyone if all the games just shifted to Canada and Mexico.

Tetrachloride

(9,047 posts)

8. F word would be simpler.

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Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:08 PM

15 hrs ago

SunSeeker

(56,838 posts)

10. So NY was fine for the '25 Ryder Cup and LA is fine for the '28 Olympics, but not for the World Cup?

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 11:14 PM

11 hrs ago

What bullshit! Trump, as usual, is trying to punish with blue cities for not bending the knee to him.

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