How Trump’s Greenland obsession could spark a World Cup boycott
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Miguel Delaney Wed, 21 January 2026 at 9:10 am UTC·6 min read Senior officials at the top of Fifa and Uefa are “very concerned” about the potential impact of the United States interest in Greenland on the World Cup and wider game, sources say, as football federations try to tread their own difficult balance in traversing a diplomatic crisis. There have been no official meetings, to go with how there won’t yet be any public statements. Everyone is instead looking to Fifa president Gianni Infantino and wondering exactly what he is thinking. That’s one other consequence of such a federation being geared around one central figure, in a way that now means it may not have the governance suitable...