Could Russia Lose the 2018 World Cup?

... is worth noting that a UEFA boycott of FIFA was definitely on the table, and may have been carried out had Blatter stayed in office. The main architects of the plan to boycott were the English, who, as we know, have not given up hopes of hosting the 2018 World Cup themselves . The initial failure of the anti-Blatter blitzkrieg forced the West to unleash a “nuclear” weapon of sorts, that is, UEFA threatened to break away from FIFA and hold its own World Cup with teams from Europe, as well as Brazil and Argentina. The British Press has already gone into detail about what such a tournament would look like. To be sure, in terms of entertainment ...