To seperate from the football itself, just wanted to start a flag about FIFA given they are destroying the game with corruption.
Here is the latest from BBC
Countries faced with ‘extreme blackmail’
Also on Tuesday, the media director of the German football federation (DFB), Steffen Simon, said the seven nations were faced with “extreme blackmail”, leading them to drop their OneLove armband plans.
He told German Deutschlandfunk radio: “The tournament director went to the English team and talked about multiple rule violations and threatened massive sporting sanctions without specifying what these would be.”
Simon said the other six teams then decided to “show solidarity” with England.
“We were in an extreme situation, in an extreme blackmail and we thought we had to take that decision without wanting to do so,” he said, later adding: “I can understand the disappointment. We had the choice between the plague and cholera.”
In Germany, supermarket chain Rewe has suspended its advertising deal with the DFB in a bid to distance itself from Fifa.
Rewe had already told the DFB in October it was ending its partnership but has now done so “with immediate effect” because of Fifa’s “unacceptable scandalous attitude”.
“We stand up for diversity - and football is also diversity. We live this position and we defend it,” said Rewe Group chief executive Lionel Souque
FIFA keeps going on about politics, Human rights should not mix in sport, the Qatari Captain wore the free Palestine armband, FIFA banned Russia from the 2022 World Cup, but refused to kick Iran out of the World Cup.
It would have been a huge gesture in this unusual World Cup, if the teams defied FIFA and wore the OneLove armband. Iranian national team defied their government by refusing to sing the national anthem, which could put their lives in danger when they return to Iran. Also, Iranians in the stadium had placards ’ Women, Life, Freedom.
There isn’t an institution or person strong enough to challenge FIFA. I like Derecho’s idea, if all fans banned FIFA internationally and maybe footballers in the national team refuse to play any games under the juristriction of FIFA
The man who wanted to inflict this cesspit of an event on us every two years. I’m not just not watching this WC, I’m never fucking watching another one ever again.
I have to say that the enthusiasm for the whole WC in Germany is rock bottom. I’ve seen few flags or promotions and our local Getränkemarkt doesn’t appear to have any promotions tied in to the competition. I mean they have tonnes of non-WC offers, it’s as if they overstocked on beer.
In 2020, FIFA withdrew its corruption complaint against Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Qatari president of Paris Saint-Germain. The following year, Gianni Infantino established his main residence in Doha.
