The little music begins to be heard. Slowly, but surely. Should we boycott the Men’s Football World Cup, from June 11 to July 19, in response to the policy, particularly international, of the President of the United States, one of the co-organizing countries (with Canada and Mexico)? The desire displayed by Donald Trump to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Danish crown, and the threat of imposing prohibitive customs duties on countries which oppose it have in any case given echo to this hypothesis in Europe. Especially since, with 78 of the 104 matches played, the United States hosts the vast majority of matches in the tournament.
It was in Germany, one of the great football nations, that the first outbursts of voice were heard. On January 16, Jürgen Hardt, MP for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz – spoke to the tabloid Bild a possible absence of the Mannschaft from a competition that it has won four times (1954, 1974, 1990 as West Germany, then in 2014). A measure to only consider“as a last resort”in order to bring back the tenant of the White House “to reason”he said.
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