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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Francis Louie C. Añiga

'Football Should Never Reach This Point': Fans React as UEFA Chief Boycotts World Cup Final Amid Fifa Row

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin boycots the World Cup finals. (Credit: Steffen Prößdorf/Wikimedia Commons)

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin refused to attend the World Cup final in New Jersey on Sunday in a boycott senior football figures say is aimed directly at FIFA president Gianni Infantino over political interference and the governance of the 2026 tournament.

The move is understood to be part of a wider list of grievances over how the World Cup was handled on US soil, with UEFA officials privately complaining that FIFA was unable, or unwilling, to shield the tournament from domestic American politics.

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