The 2026 World Cup, to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, is being threatened by factors that have nothing to do with football. Most of these factors stem from the actions of the United States’ president, Donald Trump.
Recently, a group of United Kingdom politicians called for the boycott of the World Cup over what they termed unfair tariffs imposed on the UK. They were later joined by some parliamentarians, who are uncomfortable with Trump’s threat to annexe Greenland.
Yesterday, another group of people, mostly senior football stakeholders from Germany and France, joined the call for the European boycott of the championship over the Greenland saga.
Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration policy, his invasion of Venezuela, which he seized its president and the Greenland issue have brought the United States’ ability to host the World Cup into question.
According to cityam.com, the President of St. Pauli, a German Bundesliga team, Oke Goettlich, who also sits on the executive board of the Bundesliga and the German Football Federation, has called into question the wisdom of continuing with hosting the World Cup in the U.S.
