FIFA’s 100 female footballers: ‘Stop relations with Saudi Arabia’ – Football – Ansa.it

‘Cut off relations with Saudi Arabia‘. Twenty-four hours after the presentation event of the male tennis stars of the world in Riyadh, in which a prize of 6 million euros was available for the winner, 106 professional female soccer players from 24 countries sent a letter to the president of FIFA , Gianni Infantino.

As reported by El Pais and confirmed to ANSA by some of the signatories, the letter asks the group to break the agreements with Aramco, the Saudi oil company, because “the regime itself – it’s a regime that systematically violates women’s rights and criminalizes the LGBTQ+ community.

“The Saudi authorities have spent thousands of millions on sports sponsorship to try to distract attention from the regime’s brutal human rights record, but the treatment of women speaks for itself,” the players said. ‘ wrote in the letter expected by El Pais. The letter comes after FIFA signed a “global agreement” with Aramco in April, to become the body’s “main global partner”. until the end of 2027, together with Coca Cola, Adidas, Qatar Airways or Hyndai-Kia. Among the signatories, the Spanish striker Maitane Lopez and the Finnish striker of the Real Sociedad team, Sanni Franssi, are both the involved in the national teams and currently in NJ / Ny Gotham of the US League. But also the captain of the Canadian national team, Jessie Fleming, or Becky Sauerbrunn, who was the captain of the US national team, who won the 2015 World Cup and 2019 crisis” owned by “one state that criminalizes LGBTQ+ people and systematically oppresses women”, therefore “it has no right to support our beautiful sport”