Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\nUS President Donald Trump says that Fifa chief Gianni Infantino would support moving 2026 World Cup games from US cities for security reasons if necessary.<\/p>\n
\n In September, Trump raised the possibility of moving games amid his crackdown on Democratic-run cities, but at the time, Fifa said that it was
\n up to football\u2019s governing body to decide where games are held.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cIf somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there\u2019s unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of Fifa, who\u2019s phenomenal, and I would say, let\u2019s move it to another location. And he would do that,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if games could be moved from Boston, one of the host cities.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery easily, he would do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s comments came a day after he met close friend Infantino in Egypt at a summit on a Gaza ceasefire, where the Fifa boss joined more than two dozen world leaders who were discussing peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 14 Oct, 2025 10:32 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,1863,3937,3071,10542,2178,36862,5213,71,6489,61090,61091,2686,3051,111,139,69,2572,39157,312,2437,213,1886,1361,2179,377,6730],"class_list":["post-78886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-back","tag-chief","tag-cities","tag-cup","tag-donald","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-from","tag-games","tag-gianni","tag-infantino","tag-moving","tag-necessary","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-president","tag-reasons","tag-says","tag-security","tag-sports","tag-support","tag-that","tag-trump","tag-world","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}