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Today is the opening match of the World Cup, in which Qatar and Ecuador will face each other. What formation will the home team use? Will coach Felix Sanchez field his players in a 3-5-2 formation? And will it be the right solution against the Ecuadorian “duo four four”?
GROUP IN QATAR – ECUADOR (17:00, Al Bayt)
We would be looking for answers to these questions if we had before us a normal championship, which would take place in a normal country. But this championship is not normal, and the country that organizes it this year is not normal either.
Yes, we are here to write about football. This is true and in the vast majority of cases we do. However, we are not here to write only about football. In exceptional cases like this, we deem it necessary to draw your attention to things that are incomparably more important than football. With the World Cup being hosted by a country setting trends in modern day slavery, many people in the civilized world are wondering how to approach this tournament.
Boycott? Of course, this can also be one of the ways. However, we are of the opinion that a much better solution would be to write the truth about Qatar. In the past we were used to the fact that before the big tournaments there were albums for sale on newsstands, in which collectors – mostly kids – blocked football players, about which they could read the most interesting facts. However, on the occasion of the world championship in Qatar, we would like to draw your attention to other stickers or cards. You can find them on the website cardsofqatar.combut don’t expect professional footballers and their stats there.
On the cited page you can find the business cards of the dead workers who participated in the preparation of the world championship in Qatar. Some of them have worked on stadiums, others on other infrastructures. They have come here from countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. According to an investigative report by the British newspaper The Guardian, more than 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar. And we are only talking about the years from 2010 to 2020 and only about the work related to preparation for the world championship. How many in total there were before and how many after, we will probably never know.
How come? Because human life has no value in Qatar. Not even enough to be entered as a “comma” in the statistics. Qatar is a de facto cemetery, but without gravestones. When Queen Elizabeth II recently passed away, the football world stopped to pay their respects. More than 6,500 workers have died in Qatar, but everyone is carrying on and preparing for the tournament as if nothing had happened.
Here you can see how much power money has over us and how it can cloud our minds. At the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. former England footballer David Beckham also attended, queuing up for long hours to greet her. People on social networks said at the time that this is what the character looks like. But what many don’t know about this “character” is the fact that David Beckham is the official ambassador of the World Cup in Qatar. Well, he doesn’t do it for free.
Collects an astronomical sum of 277 million dollars from the country of slaves. Thousands of workers who have worked thirteen to fourteen hours a day in Qatar for twelve years in temperatures between 40 and 45 degrees Celsius are broke. Well, they can still say they are the luckiest because, unlike others, they are still alive.
“Honestly, the next World Cup doesn’t interest me at all, because for me it’s not a real World Cup. I am not against the idea of organizing a tournament in countries where there is the possibility of helping the development of football, as has happened in South Africa or the United States. But Qatar is not a football country and it’s all about the money. The way they treat the people who built stadiums is appalling.” said former French soccer player Eric Cantona.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?
In this context, we draw attention to a report from the workshop of the French public television France 24. When you type “The situation of migrant workers in Qatar” in the search engine of the YouTube page, a 37-minute video appears at the address you , which we recommend you take a look at. But we warn you in advance that what you see will not be pleasant.
If the famous Italian poet Dante Alighieri was writing his Divine Comedy right now, he could easily use images of Qatar instead of illustrations to represent Hell, because they are much more terrifying and would make people more scared. But how is it possible that this hell on earth has been given the opportunity to host the world championship? What was initially only rumored, was confirmed years ago by the well-known source Football Leaks.
This story, which took place in November 2010, less than a month before the official assignment of the organizing rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, features three protagonists: the then UEFA president Michel Platini, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the crown prince of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who became emir in 2013. This trio met in November 2010 at the Elysée, which was publicly confirmed by Michel Platini himself. However, according to him, it was just an ordinary lunch.
However, in this “ordinary lunch”, according to Football Leaks, Nicolas Sarkozy told the Crown Prince of Qatar that if he buys the struggling club Paris Saint-Germain (Sarkozy is a big fan of this club) and brings only television to France sport , beIN Sports, which was preparing at the time, Michel Platini will arrange for the 2022 World Cup to go to Qatar.
However, Michel Platini ruled out something like this and repeatedly stressed that he already wanted to vote in favor of Qatar before this meeting and that the aforementioned meeting had no influence on his actions. However, the fact remains that in December 2010 Qatar won the organizing rights for the 2022 World Cup and in June 2011 Qatar as a state bought the Paris Saint-Germain club through its holding company Qatar Sports Investments.
Its main representative, Nasser Al-Khelajfi, immediately after taking over the club, became the president of PSG. However, the real boss of the club has been the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani from day one. Incidentally, Nasser Al-Khelajfi is also the chairman of beIN Media Group, which launched the sports channel beIN Sports in France on June 1, 2012. This basically fulfilled everything that was said at the meeting at the Elysée, according to Football Leaks.
The favorite to host the World Cup in 2022 was the United States of America, but in the final election they shockingly lost to Qatar with a vote ratio of 8:14. The European Delegation has made a significant contribution to this. However, PSG and beIN Sports were not the only “gift” for the French. After granting the organization rights, Qatar Airways, also owned by the State of Qatar, ordered fifty French-made A320 aircraft from Airbus in one package.
The words of the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, who declared a few days before the start of the tournament that “sport should not be politicised”, they sound really comical in this context. Earlier this month, FIFA President Gianni Infantino sent a message to all league participants urging them to “focus solely on football”.
Obviously, it would be more suitable for FIFA men, to make people blind and deaf. The fact that the World Cup will be held in Qatar is not only a huge mistake, but also a huge shame. And those who should be ashamed are not few.
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