Macron will go to Qatar if the Blues go in half, Kimpembe forfeit, Germany flies for diversity… The news of this Monday – Liberation

Find the main information of the day on the FIFA World Cup in Qatar six days before the opening of the competition.

Whether we boycott it or not, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and everything that surrounds it is in the news. Six days before kick-off, all the information from this Monday around the event and its dispute can be found in this recap.

Emmanuel Macron does not boycott winning France. He will come to Qatar… if the Blues reach the final or the semi-final. The President told them “said, wrote them a message”, let the Elysée know: he will go if they reach the semi-finals and a fortiori in the final. From a political point of view, it would be a shame to deprive ourselves of an image of the President exulting over a goal by Mbappé in the final, as in 2018 at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow. But this World Cup attributed to Qatar is being played in defiance of all environmental requirements and at the cost of thousands of deaths on the stadium sites. Several French cities have decided to boycott this competition by canceling the public broadcast of the matches. The balancing act promises to be complicated…

Kimpembe package, Disasi and Thuram called up: last minute changes to the Blues. The package, the novice and the surprise. Didier Deschamps, the coach of the France team, has decided to call two new players for this competition, after his list of 25 announced Wednesday, November 9. The big disappointment is Presnel Kimpembe. The defender of PSG, injured, is forced to forfeit. “The latest tests have shown that I will not be able to ensure 200% performance and I do not want to destabilize the group”, he writes on social networks. He is replaced by Axel Disasi, 24-year-old AS Monaco central defender, who will discover the French team through a World Cup.

Didier Deschamps has also decided to call one more player. The lucky winner is Marcus Thuram, Borussia Mönchengladbach striker, no longer seen in the tricolor jersey since his fourth selection during the Euro in the summer of 2021. Fifa authorizes coaches to take up to 26 players to Qatar, three more than the usual rule. The official list must be sent to Fifa before 7 p.m. on Monday. From Tuesday, substitutions will be allowed in the event of injury until the day before the first match. Either November 21 for the Blues, opponents of Australia on the 22nd at the opening of their tournament.

The cascade of injuries also affects the other selections. France is not the only one having to deal with injured players. The championships have just ended, a week before the start of the Worlds, and some were injured at the last minute. This is the case of Marseillais Amine Harit, released on a stretcher on Sunday evening during the match won by his club in Monaco (3-2) in Ligue 1. He suffered from a sprained cruciate ligament in the knee, while he is selected by Morocco for the World Cup. He will have to forfeit the competition. In Serbia, coach Dragan Stojkovic is still hoping that his two star scorers Aleksandar Mitrovic and Dusan Vlahovic, who are currently injured, will be able to participate.

The “most accessible” World Cup. Gianni Infantino dares everything to defend his World Cup. The boss of Fifa released this enormity by presenting the systems put in place to accommodate people with disabilities: access for people with reduced mobility, audio description of matches and, new, spaces dedicated to people with autism or suffering from disorders. sensory processing installed in three stadiums and six fan zones. These spaces with a capacity of more or less ten people are equipped with large tinted bay windows allowing you to continue to watch the game in a peaceful environment. But talking about the World Cup “the most accessible” remains daring, when we know that homosexuality is prohibited on Qatari soil. Or that the organizing country had to set up regular flights with its neighbors because it did not have the hotel capacity to accommodate all the supporters on its soil…

The Mannschaft will fly in the colors of diversity. The German selection was to take off Monday for Qatar on board a plane bearing a message in favor of diversity, to join the most controversial World Cup in history, indicates the airline Lufthansa. The German carrier had the slogan “Diversity wins(diversity wins) on the fuselage of the plane, which some see as a snub to the host country. Under the slogan are drawn men and women of all origins holding each other by the shoulders.

Three ticket sellers arrested. Fraud and big events always go very well together. But in Qatar, we do not laugh with business. Three men “of different nationalities” were arrested “for reselling tickets for the 2022 World Cup outside the dedicated platforms approved by Fifa and the host country”, announces the Ministry of Interior of Qatar. “The defendants have been referred to the competent authorities for the continuation of legal proceedings”, specifies the ministry on Twitter. They incur a fine of 250,000 Qatari riyals maximum (approximately 66,000 euros) multiplied by the number of tickets concerned. Authorities also released the photo of the suspects in handcuffs and with their faces blurred. In front of them, on a table, are laid out game tickets, coins, computers, telephones and car keys. These are the first arrests for this reason announced before the start of the tournament on Sunday.