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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter on Monday suggested he supports fans boycotting World Cup matches in the United States this year due to security concerns.
Blatter gave his support to comments from Swiss anti-corruption lawyer Mark Pieth, who worked with Fifa on potential reforms when Blatter was president, saying fans should stay away from the US for the tournament.
“I think Mark Pieth is right to question this World Cup,” Blatter said on social media.
Pieth cited the killing of protester Renee Good by an American immigration agent in Minneapolis earlier this month as one reason for supporters not to travel to the US. Blatter’s endorsement of Pieth’s comments comes in the wake of the death of a second US citizen, Alex Pretti, last weekend.
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No one should travel here for the World Cup.
How many players are going to get nabbed by ICE due to the color of their skin or their accent?
Imagine a game Brasil against Spain or something. ICE will just lock up the whole stadium and declare everyone in it an illegal immigrant.
Even a scumbag corrupt clock is right twice a day.
hes mad hes not more corrupt than infantino who gave “jerk off prize” to trump
It could be deeper. Some people argue that the Fifa investigation that made Blatter resign were triggered by the US in retaliation for giving Russia the world cup before the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup (not a proof of my statement)
He is just jealous that someone else sits at the trough.
Nah, that shit is get in and get out with a bag quick. Don’t want to get caught with all that loot when shit goes down.
I have a number of colleagues in Europe that normally I occasionally see. Since ICE ramped up last year, none of them have set foot on American soil at all. No one wants to risk even legally being in this mess.
I know some Canadian idiots still going there
are they rich A-holes or from alberta?
Did they stop paying his bribes or something?
Of course! He already got his golden parachute. Nobody cares what he says any more.
Too fucked up and corrupt for Sepp Blatter.
For Sepp Blatter.
Not even Qatar got that far.
I had to double check if this source was from The Onion lol
Too evil for that evil motherfucker.
Impressive.
As someone in New Jersey (right near the stadium), I agree. Admittedly, I would be saying that you shouldn’t come here even if things were great because I don’t want the added traffic and further delays on NJTransit. But with the fact that there’s a potential risk, absolutely - do not come.
I’m in Pennsylvania and I couldn’t agree more. Do not come here – not just because the personal risk to a foreigner is incredibly high right now, but also because tourism is money and money is the only language these shitstains in office speak.
Man, this summer is going to be HOT. More people come out to protest when it’s warm + tons and tons of foreign nationals for the World Cup + lead up to midterms = crazy shit. This summer is going to be history, not in a good way.
A part of me thinks absolutely nothing will happen at the world cup and the nazis will relax their usual terror tactics just because it’s the world cup. A part of me thinks the world cup will be a shitshiw with fans and players being arrested or killed in the middle of, or before and after, games
People within the USA generally do not know what the world cup is. I don’t expect any preferential treatment.
ICE: “World Cup? Sounds foreign.”
Nazi Germany successfully held the Olympics, so I’m sure they’ll get ICE to chill during the world cup.
Oddly good advice from him. The Administration has already said they’ll be targeting people that come to this. Why you’d come put yourself in danger I do not know.
Sepp Blatter was corrupt but he genuinely was in for the love of the game. Infantino is even worse.
Meh, its easy to say the right thing when your billions of dollars don’t depend on it any more.
No I mean he also really wanted to promote football across cultures and invest into poor nations to grow the sport. FWIW he was insanely corrupt but also somehow an improvement on Havelange.
For Infantino that is more of a side to the side quest. He has done absolutely nothing for football.
What, giving Krasnov a bullshit award didn’t work?
That wasn’t Blatter it was Infantino, Blatter is suspended for corruption.
Sepp Blatter suggestsfans should not travel to USfor World CupIf they’re murdering white US citizens in the street for demonstrating and resisting illegal arrest, imagine what they would do to brown tourists.
they are also likely raping women in thier custody, and in the concentration camps, that isnt being blasted on the news.
Just in case You weren’t aware of how bad it is right now, this.
It is so strange to agree with Sepp Blatter.
We thought Blatter was the worst possible Fifa president we could have. And then we got Infantino.
