{"id":498615,"date":"2026-01-27T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/infantino-calls-to-celebrate-the-2026-world-cup-united-despite-voices-promoting-a-boycott\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:38:36","slug":"infantino-calls-to-celebrate-the-2026-world-cup-united-despite-voices-promoting-a-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/infantino-calls-to-celebrate-the-2026-world-cup-united-despite-voices-promoting-a-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino calls to celebrate the 2026 World Cup united despite voices promoting a boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BRASILIA (EFE).\u2014<\/strong> The president of FIFA<\/strong>, Gianni Infantino<\/strong>, reiterated this Monday the importance of celebrating the 2026 World Cup<\/strong> as a global union event, amid the growing voices of leaders and fans who have proposed a possible boycott of the tournament due to the anti-immigration policies of the US government headed by Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong>Sedof\u00fatbol Starts with a Resounding Victory in the Concacaf Women’s U-17 Qualifier 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAfter meeting with the President of Brazil, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/strong>, at the Planalto Palace, Infantino stressed that football, both in men’s and women’s tournaments, should serve to bring people and countries closer<\/strong>, regardless of the political context.\n\n“I always look to the future. In this type of event, the most important thing is to unite people and nations from all over the world,” said the Swiss leader to the media.\n\nInfantino also highlighted the unprecedented interest<\/strong> that the 2026 World Cup, jointly organized by United States, Mexico and Canada<\/strong>, has generated, revealing that more than 500 million ticket requests<\/strong> have already been registered, a historic figure for the tournament.\n\n\n

Response to Boycott Calls<\/h3>\n\n\nWhen asked about the social media messages of the former FIFA president, Joseph Blatter<\/strong>, who suggested to fans to “stay away from the United States,” Infantino was emphatic in pointing out that football is experienced as a collective celebration.\n\n“People want to go, they are going to go, and they are going to celebrate together. We always celebrate football together,” he affirmed.\n\nThe top leader of world football, who has met on several occasions with President Trump \u2014to whom he even presented an award for his \u201ccontribution to world peace\u201d\u2014 insisted on the need to strengthen ties between peoples<\/strong>, especially in an international context marked by political and social tensions.\n\n\n

Criticisms of US policies<\/h3>\n\n\nBlatter’s statements were joined by Oke G\u00f6ttlich<\/strong>, director of the German Football Federation and president of FC St. Pauli<\/strong>, who supported the possibility of considering a boycott in response to Trump’s threats against the European Union<\/strong> and his expansionist discourse regarding Greenland<\/strong>.\n\nThe 2026 World Cup<\/strong>, which will be held between June and July<\/strong>, will be the largest in the history of the tournament, with the participation of 48 teams<\/strong>, a total of 104 matches<\/strong> and 16 host cities<\/strong> spread across Canada, Mexico and the United States.\n\nThe competition will mark the return of the World Cup to US territory for the first time since 1994<\/strong>, in a context of marked social tension derived from the raids against migrants promoted by the current American administration.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRASILIA (EFE).\u2014 The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, reiterated this Monday the importance of celebrating the 2026 World Cup as a global union event, amid the growing voices of leaders and fans who have proposed a possible boycott of the tournament due to the anti-immigration policies of the US government headed by Donald Trump. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,15222,40853],"class_list":["post-498615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-fifa","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25Ib","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}