We stand shoulder to shoulder with our European colleagues and fully support the collective view.
We oppose FIFA’s plans. The FIFA World Cup belongs to football and always will.
https://t.co/BuF7srQ8cJ
The World Leagues Association has today issued a statement following FIFA’s announcement regarding the proposed @FIFAcom Forward Enterprise project. 🌍
The statement asks FIFA to withdraw its project and outlines FIFA’s conflict of interest as the global governing body of the game and the organizer of major football tournaments. Transparent and inclusive decision-making involving all football stakeholders is needed. ⚽️
Full media release ⬇️
https://t.co/rRO4ThnyVv
Cape Verde was a great story. Truly great. But 2 weeks after, football doesn't give a fuck, less so after 1, 2 or 4 years.
If Mauritius, Mozambique, Mali do the same, great, but for 99% of fans, 99% of the time, across the world, nobody cares.
If France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal boycott a World Cup, it's automatically invalid. It's just the truth.
Likewise, a club World Cup without any of Europe's top 25 clubs is invalid. Nobody is watching Inter Miami v Boca Juniors except in markets that simply don't generate revenue or global interest.
UEFA should immediately take over global law making ( UEFA replace FIFA 4 votes in a new IFAB with the 4 home nations continuing holding the other 4 votes).
Europe has paid football's bills for 150 years. It does not need to vote for a man in an island of 100,000 to hold the game to random because FIFA are giving him 20 mil.
I'm half English, half Barbadian. One has paid its football dues, the other hasn't, so the other cannot and must not hold the balance of power.
When two thirds of football nations fill their stadiums, support grassroots football, create a pyramid, have women's teams, find kids, then their vote is equal to a European powerhouse.
Not a day before.
Time for UEFA to secede from FIFA
FIFA needs UEFA. UEFA doesn't need FIFA.
"The tales about 'settler hikers' wandering around in the hills is ridiculous. The settlers came with one objective in mind. Terrorizing the population to uproot it. One provocation after another, one murder after another.
For years now we have warned of settlers’ violence with the backing of Israeli occupation forces as an integral part of the Israeli strategy to annex maximum Palestinian land with minimum Palestinians.
For those trying to disseminate fake news and alternative realities, there are numerous videos online of settlers’ attacks across the West Bank, from those armed with automatic weapons, to adolescents with sticks beating people, to those setting fire in houses and properties.
There are videos of them doing all this while shouting insults and racist slurs and chanting death to Arabs. Death to Arabs."