German soccer executive calls for World Cup boycott to protest Trump

A German shot federation enforcement committee subordinate has advocated for the information of the federation boycotting the upcoming FIFA World Cup successful effect to caller actions by President Donald Trump.

President of Bundesliga nine St. Pauli Oke Göttlich, who is 1 of the German federation’s 10 vice presidents, told the Hamburger Morgenpost paper successful an interrogation connected Friday that "the clip has come" to "seriously see and sermon this." 

Göttlich compared the concern to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which was boycotted by respective nations led by the U.S. successful effect to the Soviet Union's penetration of Afghanistan.

"What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games successful the 1980s? By my reckoning the imaginable menace is greater present than it was then. We request to person this discussion," Göttlich said.

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Göttlich went connected to notation the governmental conversations surrounding the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar, and called retired FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who is considered a adjacent state of Trump.

"Qatar was excessively governmental for everyone and present we’re wholly apolitical? That’s thing that really, really, truly bothers me," Göttlich added. 

"As organizations and society, we’re forgetting however to acceptable taboos and boundaries, and however to support values. Taboos are an indispensable portion of our stance. Is a taboo crossed erstwhile idiosyncratic threatens? Is a taboo crossed erstwhile idiosyncratic attacks? When radical die? I would similar to cognize from Donald Trump erstwhile helium has reached his taboo, and I would similar to cognize from Bernd Neuendorf and Gianni Infantino."

Göttlich besides dismissed the proposition a boycott would wounded St. Pauli’s nationalist squad players, Australia’s Jackson Irvine and Connor Metcalfe, and Japan’s Joel Chima Fujita.

"The beingness of a nonrecreational subordinate is not worthy much than the lives of countless radical successful assorted regions who are being straight oregon indirectly attacked oregon threatened by the World Cup host," helium said.

Meanwhile, France's sports curate addressed questions astir whether the state would see boycotting the 2026 FIFA World Cup successful effect to the U.S.'s caller "framework" woody for power of portion of Greenland. 

French Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life Marina Ferrari told reporters this week the state has "no desire" to skip the cup, which takes spot successful North America this year.

"As it stands now, determination is nary tendency from the ministry for a boycott of this large competition," Ferrari said. "Now, I volition not expect what could happen, but I person besides heard voices raised from definite governmental blocs. I americium 1 who believes successful keeping athletics abstracted [from politics]. The World Cup is an highly important infinitesimal for those who emotion sport."

FRANCE SAYS IT HAS 'NO DESIRE' TO BOYCOTT WORLD CUP AMID US-GREENLAND DEAL 'FRAMEWORK'

U.S. President Donald Trump receives the FIFA Peace Prize from Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, during the FIFA World Cup 2026 authoritative gully astatine John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Dec. 5, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Emilee Chinn/FIFA via Getty Images)

Far-left French person Éric Coquerel has called for the U.S. to beryllium stripped of World Cup hosting rights and has suggested a boycott by France.

"Seriously, 1 imagines going to play the World Cup successful a state who attacks its ‘neighbours,’ threatens to invade Greenland and rides unsmooth shod implicit planetary law?" Coquerel told reporters.

Trump announced connected Truth Social Wednesday that the model for a woody has been made for the U.S. to summation power of parts of Greenland.

"Based upon a precise productive gathering that I person had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we person formed the model of a aboriginal woody with respect to Greenland and, successful fact, the full Arctic Region," helium wrote.

"This solution, if consummated, volition beryllium a large 1 for the United States of America, and each NATO Nations," Trump wrote successful the post. "Based upon this understanding, I volition not beryllium imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to spell into effect connected February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning The Golden Dome arsenic it pertains to Greenland."

Despite akin calls for sanctions successful effect to Trump's overseas policy, the U.S. has not been penalized by immoderate large sports bodies for its caller involution successful Venezuela either. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has responded to calls to exclude the U.S. and its athletes from the upcoming Winter Olympics implicit the involution successful Venezuela. The committee ruled retired immoderate punishment connected the U.S.

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U.S. President Donald Trump receives the FIFA Peace Prize from Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, during the FIFA World Cup 2026 authoritative gully astatine John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Dec. 5, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Emilee Chinn/FIFA via Getty Images)

"As a planetary organization, the IOC has to negociate a analyzable reality. The IOC has to woody with the existent governmental discourse and the latest developments successful the world," the IOC said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital. 

"The quality to bring athletes together, nary substance wherever they travel from, is cardinal to the aboriginal of values-based, genuinely planetary sport, which tin springiness anticipation to the world. For this reason, the IOC cannot impact itself straight successful governmental matters oregon conflicts betwixt countries, arsenic these autumn extracurricular our remit. This is the realm of politics."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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