FIFA has called on the teams participating in the controversial Qatar World Cup to “focus on football” and stop “handing out moral lessons” in a letter revealed by Sky News on Thursday
FIFA has called on the brigades sharing in the controversial Qatar World Cup to” concentrate on football” and stop” handing out moral assignments” in a letter revealed by Sky News on Thursday. Qatar has faced review for its mortal rights record on the treatment of foreign workers on major structure systems for the World Cup, on women’s rights and LGBTQ rights. Homosexuality is illegal in the Gulf state and captains from a number of leading European countries, including England, France and Germany, will wear armbands in rainbow colours with the communication” One Love” in ananti-discrimination crusade.
Last week, the Australian public platoon condemned the” suffering” of migratory workers.
” Please let’s now concentrate on the football!” FIFA president Gianni Infantino and clerk general Fatma Samoura said in a letter transferred to all 32 World Cup brigades, verified to AFP by world football’s governing body.
” We know football doesn’t live in a vacuum and we’re inversely apprehensive that there are numerous challenges and difficulties of a political nature each around the world.
” But please don’t allow football to be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists.”
Qatar organisers have defended the country’s rights record.
Meanwhile, in Argentina a nation has been holding its breath, hoping the seven- time Ballond’Or winner doesn’t succumb to an early injury.
Messi first went to a World Cup as a teenager in 2006 and has scored a record 90 pretensions from a record 164 caps.
He captained Argentina to the final of the 2014 World Cup but 2018 was a hopeless disappointment, with Jorge Sampaoli’s side losing in the last 16 to a France platoon featuring Kylian Mbappe, now Messi’s teammate in Paris.
Now aged 35, Messi goes to Qatar remarkably still looking to score his first thing in the knockout stages of a World Cup, noway mind actually win it.
” I feel good physically at the moment. Better than last time, when I arrived at PSG. But when I said this could be my last World Cup, I did so because of my age. After this bone
finishes we will see how I am feeling,” he said in a recent interview with Directv Sports.
” For us, like for all Argentines, it’s delicate to be calm, because we’re contenders to win the World Cup.
” But to win the World Cup you need lots of effects to go in your favour, in any given match or in the competition as a whole. But we’re going there to fight and we’re ready to take on anyone.”
After the Australian players’ review, a World Cup prophet said assessing” robust” labour laws had also been a” challenge” for Australia.
before this week, the Arab League states slammed review of Qatar as a” vilification crusade” ahead of the event.
” One of the great strengths of the world is indeed its veritably diversity, and if addition means anything, it means having respect for that diversity,” continued the FIFA letter.
” No one people or culture or nation is’ better’ than any other.”
Qatar Labour Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri told AFP on Wednesday that calls for a new compensation fund for migratory workers was a” hype trick”. Know More News…
