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The figures used by The Guardian did not include occupation or place of work so deaths could not be definitively associated with the World Cup construction programme, but "a very significant proportion of the migrant workers who have died since 2011 were only in the country because Qatar won the right to host the World Cup." [57] [58]
FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a "blatant mistake". [52] Frank Lowy, chairman of Football Federation Australia, said that if the 2022 World Cup were moved to November and thus upset the schedule of the A-League, they would seek compensation from FIFA. [53]
And upon rewatch of the Portugal match, the xG totals (2.1-0.4 in favor of the U.S. on Tuesday) seem deceptively kind. But all of the worry is relative — relative to outsize expectations.
A political cartoon depicting slave labour in the construction of the stadiums in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup [7] (see also: Slavery in Qatar). In a December 2021 interview with Al Jazeera, FIFA's secretary-general Fatma Samoura said that FIFA had developed a general framework to structure and guide the implementation of its human rights responsibilities and commitment, published in ...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar from Nov. 21-Dec. 18. This is the first time that the World Cup will be held in the Middle East.
During the tournament – despite having made a point of attending every match of the 2022 Men's World Cup, and encouraging fans to buy more tickets to Women's World Cup matches by saying "do the right thing, come to watch the matches" – Infantino only watched a few matches in New Zealand at the start of the tournament before leaving for ...
“Why isn’t CONCACAF calling this match. Play it (tomorrow). Someone is going to get hurt,” the two-time World Cup winner said on X – formerly known as Twitter – also using the hashtag ...
U.S. Senator Dan Coats wrote to Sepp Blatter requesting that Russia be barred from the 2018 World Cup due to its annexation of Crimea. The annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 led to several British and American politicians calling on FIFA to overturn its decision of hosting the 2018 World Cup in Russia — British Shadow Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham said that ...