If there was a precise moment in which the stage set up by Fifa and Qatar definitively collapsed, it was when Khalid Salman – World Cup ambassador and former player of the Qatari national team – in an interview with German TV Zdf defined homosexuality a “mental injury”. It happened two weeks ago, practically at the same time as the unfortunate letter from the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, in which he clarified that football cannot take on all the problems in the world, and therefore – in essence – think about enjoying the World Cup and don’t bother anymore with these stories of rights and duties.
