UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Re:UEFA and its national associations will not participate i... by paxys on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:20PM (#49114461)

Football/soccer is one place where Europe can easily flex their muscles against American capitalism and corruption. Good on them for saying it loud and clear.

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Re:UEFA and its national associations will not participate i... by jimbob45 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:45PM (#49114809)

This is a joke, right? I can’t think of any league as blatantly corrupt as FIFA on any level.

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Re:UEFA and its national associations will not participate i... by jotajota24 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:52PM (#49114896)

What are you on about? FIFA is not a league and certainly not in charge of european football

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Re:UEFA and its national associations will not participate i... by tremon on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:27PM (#49115313)

I'm not convinced. There's plenty of large clubs in Europe owned by foreign capital and those clubs have already tried to push a pan-European league for themselves. I can see the FIFA using those teams as leverage to gain a foothold in Europe without UEFA.

* e.g. Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Paris SG, AC Milan and Inter Milan -- in Spain, individual clubs can't be owned by private equity but the La Liga corporation is)

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