The World Cup is meant to be a global
celebration but along with all those
cheers
this time around there's been a whole
lot of criticism and condemnation
from protests like this one
to players taking a stand so how did we
get here
this was the moment back in 2010 when
Qatar won its bid to host the World Cup
a huge victory for the tiny but
incredibly wealthy country of just 3
million the first in the Middle East to
host the event but right away there were
questions why was the country with
dangerously hot summer temperatures like
over 40 degrees hot given a tournament
that's normally held in the summer ever
since there have been unrelenting
allegations of corruption headline after
headline saying that Qatar bribed
corrupt officials from FIFA which
oversees the World Cup to win hosting
rights Qatar has always strongly denied
any wrongdoing but those allegations
aren't the only problem
to host the tournament Qatar has had to
build a lot spending an estimated 200
billion dollars on infrastructure seven
new stadiums a whole new Metro system
and around a hundred hotels and it
relied on foreign workers to get all
this done workers who faced really harsh
conditions and many of them working in
that scorching Heat have died.
just how many is hard to know the
Qataris say 37 foreign workers have died
at World Cup construction sites but many
have said that number is an undercount
this report from the urn's international
labor organization found there were at
least 50 work-related deaths and 500
severe injuries in 2020 alone that's
just one year of World Cup construction
that's been going on for a decade
and at the beginning of that
construction the International Trade
union Confederation estimated
That as many as 4 000 workers could lose their
lives if somebody thinks
that by just hammering and criticizing
and hammering critical as we achieve
something well I can tell you achieve
exactly the opposite
that's FIFA president Gianni Infantino
he wrote a letter to all the World Cup
teams that was leaked to Sky News in it
he asked them to focus on the football
and avoid ideological or political
battle but some teams are ignoring that
the Danish jerseys will either have
faded logos or be entirely black to
honor the workers lives England players
took a knee and the Australian team
released this blog
decision to host the World Cup the Qatar
which resulted in the suffering and in
the harm of countless of our fellow
workers it's not just workers rights in
Qatar a conservative country with strict
Sharia law homosexuality is illegal and
just a few weeks ago this Qatari World
Cup official called it damage in the
mind despite its laws Qatar has been
trying to reassure players and fans
" listen everybody's welcome in Doha we do
not stop anybody from coming to the half
with any different backgrounds any
different belief"
still some fans angry at FIFA for
choosing Qatar in the first place won't
be watching so it's time for FIFA to
FIFA has rejected the criticism this
and Qatar says it hasn't been Fair
arguing that it's faced an element of
racism as the first Arab country to host
the tournament here's the Emir again
speaking to his advisory Council
Qatar has faced unprecedented criticism
he tells them many are questioning the
for the next month all eyes will be on
this as Qatar tries to Showcase itself after all that's what hosting the World
Cup is all about but for Qatar when this
one is all over the world may remember a
whole lot more than just the soccer
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