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FIFA - Will They Cave???

Posted by Wolf-stein <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Wolf-stein' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:06 pm

Trump, and his RW fascist cohorts, have banned numerous international countries citizens from travelling to the USA, as well as made the place pretty hostile to most others, but with the FIFA Football WC about to be held in Canada/Mexico/USA next year will FIFA have the balls to drop the USA from hosting?

FIFA's mandate says that all nations should be welcome to support their team/country and not be stopped from travelling by political means (or something like that).

Mexico and Canada are indicating that they could co-host the whole tournament.

The Olympics are also supposed to be in the USA as well.

The overseas tourism into the USA is crashing and will probably get worse as there'll be loads of families who booked before the Trump upheaval and they can't afford to lose the money for the trip.

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Posted by Aberblue1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Aberblue1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 9:25 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

If you expect FIFA to do the right thing you're in for a very long wait, I fear.

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Posted by kop_gobshites <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=kop_gobshites' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 9:11 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

I met an elderly American couple yesterday who said they now felt shame saying they were American, sad state of affairs

The king’s servants but Ireland’s first

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Posted by Sarflondonblue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Sarflondonblue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 30, 2025, 3:43 pm, in reply to "Re: FIFA - Will They Cave???"

My dad's cousin and his family all live in Fort Worth, Texas.
He moved out there with his parents when he was a kid, doesn't really remember anything of Wales, he's a Texas man through and through.
Came over here in 2018 not long after the Orange one's first Victory and was embarrassed by the fact he was elected then. A middle class white man who owns a gun, goes to church every week and, I presume though I never really asked, is an old school republican.
He is mortified that he has been elected again, made sure that everyone in the family knew that he had not voted for him and couldn't stand the man, travels loads for work (he is an engineer for American Airlines) and says that every time he has a meeting abroad he spends the first couple of minutes explaining that he had nothing to do with him getting elected.

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Posted by Spart <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Spart' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 6:59 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

You are talking about an organisation that threatened the captain of England with a ban if he dared so much as wear a rainbow armband in Qatar, and who's leader stood on a platform defending the regimes antipathy towards LGBTQ+ supporters who travelled into the tournament.

There is absolutely NO CHANCE that FIFA would ever do the right thing when if it threatened their sponsorship deals and contracts. I'd personally love to see the WC played out infrastructure of empty stadiums as foreigners refuse/fear to go and locals can't be arsed to watch, but that won't happen either.

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Posted by Teflon_Don <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Teflon_Don' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Re: FIFA - Will They Cave???"

Finally, something we agree on.

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Posted by GG <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=GG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 6:02 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

Cave in? NO CHANCE.

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Posted by Brenno <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Brenno' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 5:13 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

Must have missed the world cup in Qatar and Saudi being given it!

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Posted by SnafflesBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=SnafflesBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:46 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

There is zero chance of that, even when fans start getting deported for no reason. There'll be loads of handwringing but nothing done, safe in the knowledge that media attention will only last about 3 days before Trump shits himself in public or something and things move on.

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Posted by rookwood <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=rookwood' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 30, 2025, 4:52 pm, in reply to "Re: FIFA - Will They Cave???"

He'll end up on the pitch and the trophy in the Oval Office.

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Posted by NoelBlakeFanClub <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=NoelBlakeFanClub' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:45 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

There's no way Trump doesn't relent just before the tournament starts - he'll have too many massive corporations telling him to allow people in* so as not to spoil their sponsorships...

*giving him a backhander in the process.

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Posted by Yogi_Clementine <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Yogi_Clementine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 6:07 pm, in reply to "Re: FIFA - Will They Cave???"

This

Formerly yogiclementine

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Posted by westy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=westy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:42 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

Not a chance. Infantino is very much on the Trump train. Despite there being clear breaches of that mandate and folk being disappeared everywhere.

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Posted by Platinii <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Platinii' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:15 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

Not a chance. Money is always more important then ethics.

I'm hoping that it's a roaring success in Canada and Mexico though.

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Posted by No_One_Ever_Replies <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=No_One_Ever_Replies' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 29, 2025, 4:10 pm, in reply to "FIFA - Will They Cave???"

It would be tremendous if they did lose the World Cup and Olympics but it’s never gonna happen

It’s top quality stuff this!

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