{"id":428700,"date":"2026-01-23T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:56:09","slug":"german-soccer-federation-official-wants-world-cup-boycott-considered-because-of-trump-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428700\/","title":{"rendered":"German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States is co-hosting the World Cup from June 11-July 19 with Canada and Mexico. Fans have concerns about high ticket prices<\/a>, while travel bans imposed by the Trump administration are also prohibiting supporters<\/a> from some competing nations from attending.<\/p>\n

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G\u00f6ttlich, who has called for the defense of values, is likely to meet resistance to calls for a boycott from federation president Bernd Neuendorf and FIFA president Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n

\u201cQatar was too political for everyone and now we\u2019re completely apolitical? That\u2019s something that really, really, really bothers me,\u201d G\u00f6ttlich said of the German federation\u2019s opposition to the previous World Cup host. <\/p>\n

Germany flopped at that tournament, and the coach who took over afterward said he wanted no more political distractions<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs organizations and society, we\u2019re forgetting how to set taboos and boundaries, and how to defend values,\u201d G\u00f6ttlich said. \u201cTaboos are an essential part of our stance. Is a taboo crossed when someone threatens? Is a taboo crossed when someone attacks? When people die? I would like to know from Donald Trump when he has reached his taboo, and I would like to know from Bernd Neuendorf and Gianni Infantino.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamburg-based St. Pauli is known for mixing sport with politics<\/a> near the the city\u2019s red-light district, and particularly its left-wing stance. The club\u2019s famous pirate skull-and-crossbones symbol was first carried by squatters who lived nearby and later popularized by fans who identified as punks.<\/p>\n

G\u00f6ttlich dismissed the suggestion a boycott would hurt St. Pauli\u2019s national team players, Australia\u2019s Jackson Irvine and Connor Metcalfe, and Japan\u2019s Joel Chima Fujita.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe life of a professional player is not worth more than the lives of countless people in various regions who are being directly or indirectly attacked or threatened by the World Cup host,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

___<\/a> <\/p>\n

AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n

Ciar\u00e1n Fahey, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is co-hosting the World Cup from June 11-July 19 with Canada and Mexico. Fans have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,561,82],"class_list":["post-428700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}