German Football Official Calls for World Cup Boycott Discussion

Oke Göttlich, president of Hamburg's St. Pauli club and vice-president of the German Football Federation (DFB), has compared current US threats toward Greenland to Cold War-era situations that led to Olympic boycotts. The 50-year-old journalist-turned-football-official argues that the current threat from the United States is greater than those in the 1980s.

In comments to the Hamburger Morgenpost, Göttlich questioned what justified boycotts of certain countries in past Olympic Games, suggesting the same principles should apply now. 'The life of a footballer is not worth more than that of any person being directly or indirectly attacked by the host country of the next World Cup,' he stated. asg-reflektory.pl