“Stay Away From the USA!”: Sepp Blatter Calls for World Cup Boycott
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Ex-FIFA President calls for boycotting the World Cup
Plus: Andy Burnham speaks out as the Gorton and Denton by-election approaches, yet another U-turn from the government, and Elon Musk pivots from cars to robots.
With Helena (NoJusticeMTG) & Dalia Gebrial
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Navarra Live, coming up tonight. Will you be boycotting this year's World Cup? |
| 0:08.2 | Set Blatter suggests that maybe you should be. Andy Burnham speaks out as the Gorton and Denton |
| 0:13.6 | by-election approaches. Elon Musk is pivoting from cars to robots as Tesla profits have taken a dive, |
| 0:19.6 | and Rachel Reeves has done a partial |
| 0:22.0 | U-turn on some unfortunate business rate changes for pubs. I'm Helena. The internet will know me as |
| 0:27.4 | no justice, MTG however, but tonight, it's ladies' night as always on a Thursday, and I'm joined |
| 0:32.0 | by Dahlia Gabriel. If you'd like to support our work, you can sign up at novaramedia.com |
| 0:36.6 | forward slash support, and as ever, do not forget to let our work, you can sign up at Navaramedia.com forward slash support, |
| 0:37.9 | and as ever, do not forget to let us know what you think in the comments. |
| 0:43.0 | Our top story tonight. |
| 0:44.9 | In his second term, Donald Trump has threatened allies, |
| 0:48.0 | banned visitors from a vast swath of countries, |
| 0:50.5 | and set ice upon people he disagrees with. |
| 0:53.2 | That's led countries to seek leverage they can |
| 0:55.4 | use to fight back, and individuals to consider whether they even want to set foot in the world's |
| 1:00.0 | most powerful nation. And the former head of FIFA has now warned fans to skip this year's |
| 1:05.1 | World Cup. Set Blatter tweeted this on Monday. For the fans, there's only one piece of advice. Stay away from the |
| 1:11.8 | USA. I think that Mark Peath is right to question this year's World Cup. Mark Peirth is a Swiss |
| 1:17.7 | anti-corruption lawyer who worked with FIFA on potential reforms when Blatter was president. |
| 1:23.5 | He said this to a Swiss newspaper. What we are seeing domestically, the marginalisation of political opponents, abuses by immigration services, |
| 1:32.5 | hardly encourages fans to go there. |
| 1:35.4 | For fans, just one piece of advice, avoid the United States. |
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