'Cancel your tickets': Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/world-cup-2674872045/

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin

Alexander Willis
January 10, 2026 2:11PM ET

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“I had to cancel my World Cup plans,” wrote Ramy Abdu, a Palestinian academic and assistant professor of law and finance, in a social media post on X Friday. “Visiting the United States simply isn’t safe.”

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“Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X Friday. “If the answer is no, it’s time to cancel your US World Cup tickets.”

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[fujiyamasan]

1. Smart...

Anyone at this point would have to be insane to visit this country. And fuck FIFA. Such a corrupt organization.

[popsdenver]

20. FIFA

is THE most corrupt organization.....Second only to Trump and his entire CABAL of Republicans.

Everyone in the U.S. should not purchase tickets to ANY match here in the U.S. and definitely no one in any other country should buy tickets to matches scheduled in the U.S.

Perfect that Trump would hook up with FIFA............birds of a feather.......

[JT45242]

25. After paying all that bribe money to get little or no economic benefit...karma

You can't get Olympics or world cup without big bags of bribe cash...now empty stadiums, empty hotels, and empty restaurants.

Hope people decide to attend only games in Canada and mexico

[popsdenver]

31. Reminds me of

when Colorado was nearly subjected to hosting the Winter Olympics back in the 70's........

Thankfully, we had a very intelligent, astute, and true visionary Governor at the time.......Dick Lamm. Did I mention that he was a true Dem ??????????

He saved our State, time and time again, while he was Governor. And then, he continued influencing the minds of people after he left office. He wrote a weekly commentary, published in the Rocky Mountain News, about many significant problems that we were facing currently, and/or that we, as a nation would be facing..........I re-read those articles a few years back, and if there was ever a Visionary, he was it.......Four Decades later, almost all of them came true.........

Dick Lamm, thank you for all your contributions, they weren't listening then, and they're not listening still.
May you RIP......

[Dave Bowman]

2. I won't set foot on American soil for as long as this madness is going on.

[Ilsa]

18. I like that idea. I think when

tourism and other businesses start feeling the financial impact, they'll attempt to get their reps to pay attention. Boycotting the World Cup sends a big message, especially with massive cancellations.

I can remember the times long ago when middle class Mexicans would drive to Laredo, then San Antonio for long weekends in the spring to go shopping, particularly for Easter. I'm guessing there is none of that these days.

[TheRickles]

22. An all-encompassing boycott of America would get attention, not just tourism but all our products too.

[murielm99]

28. My son in law is Canadian.

He and my daughter live in Toronto. He will not come here. He thinks someone will shoot him.

We don't laugh at him.

[2naSalit]

3. Olympics too!

Both organizations are so corrupt anyway, might as well give them a big dose of 'fuck you and your criminal business'! Cancel all events of the sort, we are in a civil war and must fight it with intellect,this is one mechanism we can all use easily.

Let these criminal enterprises fall on their faces.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Especially air travelers. Some might be driving in from Canada or

Tierra del Fuego. So, not everyone need cancel, but not everyone is Dauntless.

[RockRaven]

5. Not just tickets! Don't fucking watch! No streaming, no broadcast, no web traffic,

no merch, no nothing! STAY AWAY FROM EVERYTHING FIFA/WC THIS YEAR.

[lame54]

6. FIFA meet FAFO

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. Should be on a Tee shirt!

NA

[dutch777]

7. Would be nice if whole countries and teams/athletes did the same. BIG embarrassment to Trump. The more...

...blacklisting/boycotting of American events, products and services the louder the message and embarrassment grows.

[flashman13]

11. If you recall, in 1980 the U.S. and a number of other countries boycotted the Olympics in Moscow over

the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. It would be fitting if the rest of the world boycotted both the Olympics and the World Cup here in the U.S. Planning for mass picketing and demonstrations at every event should start now. We need to show the rest of the world that we are not all monsters.

[moondust]

16. About 60 countries.

U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter took the lead in the call for a boycott of the 1980 Olympics, and approximately 60 other countries joined the United States in staying away from Moscow. A number of Western countries did not observe the boycott, notably Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden.
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https://www.britannica.com/event/Moscow-1980-Olympic-Games

Mixed feelings since it deprives the athletes of the rare opportunity when they may not even agree with their government's decisions.

[ShazzieB]

24. Well, the next Olympics in the U.S. aren't happening until 2028, so a lot could happen by then.

I'm hoping Schlump will be dead by then. I know Vance would suck as potus, but I honestly find him less scary than the Orange Hellbeast. Among other things, Vance wouldn't be able to control all the Republicans in Congress the way the Orange One does. And 2028 is an election year!

[Gore1FL]

8. Who would want to come to a country whose immigration enforcement agency is so violent that they even kill citizens? nt

[Skittles]

9. I don't get that either

I would be boycotting America now too; all decent folk need to take a stand against the growing fascism here.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

12. I hope people boycott "at levels nobody thought was possible."

"never seen before"
"nobody's ever seen anything like it"
"at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible"

America deserves to be a pariah right now...unfortunately.

[FakeNoose]

13. I fear for the safety of the foreign athletes, team managers, the fans, and anyone planning to come here

It's going to be a shitshow, and there's no way our government can guarantee the safety of these athletes.

[BComplex]

29. Me, too, FakeNoose! Foreigners are so NOT safe in this country now.

Neither are free-thinking Americans.

[NGeorgian]

14. Downtown Atlanta has nothing interesting and.............

traffic is a nightmare. So is the airport.

[ananda]

15. I called for it awhile ago after they gave him that fucking peace prize.

I hope it gets no attendance.

[AllyCat]

17. No one should come here.

We aren’t even safe.

[wolfie001]

19. Boost this FAR AND WIDE!!!

[Exp]

21. It's about FRIGGIN' time! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. MAJOR BACKLASH As FIFA Fans Cancel Plans to Travel to USA for World Cup

#FIFA
cancel all games in the #USA. No one will be safe there.

#justiceforGOOD and all victims of #ICE

— Cross Culture Cologne 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇸🇩 (@nicmal.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T08:30:55.486Z

[Paladin]

26. YES! Boycott FIFA! (nt)

[Trust_Reality]

30. Good idea. It's not safe here as long as the dump regime is in place.

[spanone]

32. K&R

[Prince99]

33. Take Greenland - games off

Let's be real about this. If someone like Putin were to take over a country and host a world event, would the USA (in the past) be the lead to suggest the cancelation of the event? Did we do this in the 80s?