In a statement to Sky News, FIFA said: “Safety and security are the top priorities at all FIFA events worldwide.<\/p>\n
“Safety and security are obviously the governments’ responsibility, and they decide what is in the best interest for public safety.<\/p>\n
“We hope every one of our 16 host cities will be ready to successfully host and fulfill all necessary requirements.”<\/p>\n
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\n Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino have a long-standing alliance. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
FIFA did not directly comment on changing any of the 11 venues in the US for the expanded 48-team men’s football World Cup which will see the Americans host 78 of the 104 fixtures, including the final in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
The remaining games are in Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n
Boston does not have matches itself, but the home of the NFL’s New England Patriots is being used by FIFA for seven matches, 30 miles away in Foxborough, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
President Trump<\/a> said: “If somebody is doing a bad job, and if I feel there’s unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni – the head of FIFA who’s phenomenal – and I would say, ‘Let’s move into another location,’ and they would do that.<\/p>\n “He wouldn’t love to do it, but he’d do it very easily.”<\/p>\n Read more: President Trump and Mr Infantino first encountered each other during Mr Trump’s first term in office, when the US was awarded the right to host next year’s tournament.<\/p>\n They have popped up together at summits and meetings across the world since.<\/p>\n The FIFA president was even among those in attendance as Mr Trump and world leaders signed the recent Israel-Gaza peace deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, President Trump slammed Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, and said the “radical left” was taking over Boston.<\/p>\n He made the comments while hosting Argentine president Javier Milei.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has already deployed National Guard troops to Washington<\/a>, Los Angeles and Memphis<\/a> in what he said was a bid to clean up crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA has told Sky News the US government does have the right to determine if cities are safe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-82800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
FIFA president defends ‘critical’ alliance with Trump<\/a>
FIFA boss criticised over decision to join Trump tour<\/a><\/p>\n