Boys will be boycotters

14% The share of Spanish respondents over the age of 65 who told the POLITICO Poll before the World Cup began that they expected other countries to boycott the U.S.-centric tournament “because of politics.” Across all of the five countries we surveyed, young people were far more likely than older ones to take such politicization of the global sports for granted, with up to 60 percent of French respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 saying they expected such boycotts. In Spain, 45 percent of young people did. Follow other findings from the latest POLITICO poll here.