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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Donald Trump will not move World Cup matches, says Fifa vice-president

Donald Trump poses with the World Cup trophy in August.
Donald Trump poses with the World Cup trophy in August. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Any decision to move matches from World Cup cities for 2026 must be taken by Fifa, not Donald Trump, a vice-­president of the organisation has said.

Victor Montagliani, who is also the president of Concacaf, the confederation that covers North and Central America and the Caribbean, was speaking after the US president said this week he would move matches out of cities if he thought they could be “even a little bit dangerous for the World Cup”. He said San Francisco and Seattle were “run by radical left lunatics who don’t know what they’re doing”.

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