Soccer – Frankfurt am Main – World Cup event: “Sport must develop backbone” – Sport
Frankfurt/Main (dpa) – 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: Which cart am I going to stretch myself in front of?” Said the famous chairman of the “Our Curve” fan association at the event “Qatar 2022. Not our World Cup!” on Saturday evening 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. That is normal. Get used to it or get out of football.”
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!”, “Our Curve”, the society games from Berlin and the initiative “Boycott Qatar”. 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 government of the emirate refers to its own reforms and rejects some of the criticism.
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