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European soccer teams agree to boycott FIFA over private equity proposal
NBC News· 2026-07-30 22:39
Well, imagine baseball without the Dodgers or the NFL without the Chiefs. That's the future that FIFA could be in for with some of the world's top soccer countries threatening to boycott the World Cup. In a scathing statement just in the last few hours, the organization overseeing Europe's 55 soccer teams says it will protest a controversial new plan from FIFA's president.And that plan would essentially sell partial control of the World Cup and raise $20 billion from outside investors and private equity. Am ...