Detta VM smutsas redan innan det börjat ner av Infantinos osunt sykofantiska relation till Trump och de falska förespeglingar som legat till grund för att USA får arrangera huvudparten av matcherna:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7344372/2026/06/09/infantino-trump-world-cup-visas/
Citat:
To many, therefore, it is of little surprise that the World Cup’s opening week is dominated by a Somalian referee being turned away at Miami International Airport, or “many” Iranian and African journalists being denied the necessary U.S. visas, or Iran’s national team relocating its training base to Mexico.
For so long, Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, has dismissed concerns and entirely legitimate media reporting on the matter. At the FIFA Congress in Paraguay in 2025, to which he turned up days late, prioritizing a jaunt with Trump to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, he told his audience “the world is welcome in America”.
“Of course, the players, everyone involved, but definitely also all the fans,” he said. “And let’s be clear about that: this doesn’t come from me, this comes from the American government.”
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All that cosiness, all those photo-ops, but now FIFA wants the world to believe it is a modest soccer tournament, guests in a host nation, powerless to speak up for those who wish to participate or attend its tournament.
Which rather ignores that FIFA demands guarantees from any host nation to ensure the movement of people during competitions. In May 2018, during the bidding process for the World Cup in his first term, Trump wrote to Infantino and said he was confident that “all eligible athletes, officials and fans from all countries around the world would be able to enter the United States without discrimination” during the tournament.
