German Football Official Calls for World Cup Boycott

Oke Göttlich, president of Hamburg's St. Pauli club and DFB vice president, made the remarks amid tensions surrounding potential US military action in Greenland. The 50-year-old official questioned whether footballers' lives should be valued more than those threatened by a World Cup host nation. amunra.help

Comparing the current situation to the Olympic boycotts of Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 84, Göttlich argued that the threat posed by certain countries today might be even greater than during the Cold War era.