The MP invites Fifa to organize the next edition only in Mexico and Canada.
LFI MP Éric Coquerel calls on Fifa on Tuesday to only play the World Cup this summer in Mexico and Canada, in reaction to the international policy of American President Donald Trump. “Seriously, can we imagine going to play the Football World Cup in a country which attacks its neighbors, threatens to invade Greenland, destroys international law, wants to torpedo the UN, establishes a fascist and racist militia in its country, attacks the opposition there, prohibits access to the event for supporters from around fifteen countries, plans to ban all LGBT signs from the stadiums, etc.?”he writes on X. “The question arises seriously, especially since it is still possible to refocus on Mexico and Canada”judges the president of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly.
Less than five months before the start of the World Cup (June 11-July 19), which is being played in three countries (United States, Canada, Mexico), such a change in attitude from Fifa seems unlikely. During the draw for the competition at the beginning of December, its president Gianni Infantino pulled out all the stops for Donald Trump by giving him his first “price of peace” of the football federation.
