Vienna – For Josef Pröll, a boycott of the World Cup finals in North America is not up for discussion in view of the US attack on Iran. “I fundamentally don’t believe in boycotts, at the stage we’re at now, not even when it comes to the World Cup issue. We should continue to focus and prepare clearly for the World Cup,” said the ÖFB supervisory board chairman on the ORF program Sport am Sonntag. At the end of January, Pröll said about the STANDARD: “There is the principle of keeping sport and politics separate. I also follow this principle.” Austria’s national team made it to the tournament after a 28-year break from the World Cup.
