“The time has definitely come,” German soccer federation vice-president Oke Göttlich told the Hamburger Morgenpost, “to seriously consider and discuss” a boycott of the 2026 World Cup. It’s doubtful that Trump cares enough about the World Cup to save it from a would-be boycott by backing down on the policies mentioned above. The Trump administration, then, probably wouldn’t be materially hurt by a World Cup boycott. Defending champions Uruguay refused to go to Italy for the 1934 World Cup because so few European countries had showed up when it hosted the inaugural edition four years earlier. And the USSR refused to play a qualifier against Chile for the 1974 World Cup after the overthrow of socialist president Salvador Allende.