Thoughts? Soccer's top officials have urged the 32 teams preparing for the most political World Cup in the modern to focus on the game in Qatar and avoid handing out lessons in morality. politics sports kprc2 click2houston fifa
from the World Cup for human rights violations and supplying the Russian military with weapons.
“At FIFA, we try to respect all opinions and beliefs, without handing out moral lessons to the rest of the world. One of the great strengths of the world is indeed its very diversity, and if inclusion means anything, it means having respect for that diversity." In a separate in-house interview published on Friday by FIFA, Samoura acknowledged the perception of Qatar"as a conservative society, like my own country in Senegal."
“Is such racism acceptable in Europe in the 21st century? Football belongs to everyone,” Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview with French daily Le Monde published on Friday.
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