Fan representative Dario Minden has made the sports associations responsible for the future allocation of major events.
“The sport has to develop a backbone. The sport itself has to ask itself: What kind of cart am I going to let myself be stretched to?” Said the deputy chairman of the fan association “Our Curve” at the event “Qatar 2022. Not our World Cup!” in Frankfurt.
“The associations must slowly come in the direction of not absorbing every euro, no matter how bloody it is,” said Minden. The lawyer from Frankfurt caused a stir this week when he addressed Abdulla Mohammed al Thani, Qatar’s ambassador to Germany, directly at a congress of the German Football Association (DFB) with the words: “I am a man and I love Men. I have sex with other men. It’s normal. Get used to it or get out of football.”
LGBTIQ* community advises against traveling to Qatar
Representatives of the LGBTIQ* community have so far advised against traveling to Qatar. The English abbreviation stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans people, intersex and queer people. The asterisk is a placeholder for additional identities and genders.
The organizers of the event in Frankfurt were the network of “Never Again!”, “Unsere KURve”, the Society Games from Berlin and the “Boycott Qatar” initiative. A former and current worker from the country of the World Cup host also reported.
Before the World Cup tournament from November 20 to December 18, Qatar has long been criticized for human rights violations and the treatment of workers from other countries. Fatal accidents have also occurred on construction sites in the past. The emirate’s government refers to its own reforms and rejects some of the criticism.
