The Nordic team will play the World Cup with the shield of the imperceptible elastic because its sports brand does not want to be visible in a tournament that “has cost thousands of lives”
The football classics, those who miss the black boots and the collars on the shirts, should be happy with Denmark’s chromatic proposal for the World Cup in Qatar. It’s red. Not anymore. It does not have any ornament of any other color. Just two stripes of more intense red on the sides. Even the shield of the federation or the logo of the sports brand (Hummel) does not stand out. In the second and third shirt (white and black) exactly the same happens. A nod to the past or an excess of modernity? No. An act of protest.
The sports house claimed that the shirt was not only a tribute to the Danish team that surprisingly won the 1992 European Championship (it was because of the international sanctions against Yugoslavia), but that it was a criticism of Qatar and its designation to win a World Championship. to organize. Cup, football. “We don’t want to be visible during a tournament that has cost thousands of lives. We support the Danish national team until the end, but that is not the same as supporting Qatar as the host country,” Hummel said on his social networks.
The Guardian newspaper denounced a few months ago that some 6,500 workers had died during the construction of the Qatari stadiums. They were all immigrants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan or India. “This World Cup was awarded under unacceptable conditions and with unacceptable consequences. We must think of the injured and the relatives of the deceased,” Norwegian football president Lise Klaveness said forcefully at a FIFA meeting in March. And he did it in Doha, the capital of the emirate.
The response from the Qatari authorities was immediate. Qatar’s Supreme Committee (QSC) denied that the construction of the camps cost thousands of lives. The authorities then recognized three of the dead. This Thursday, the QSC accused Hummel of downplaying his commitment “to protect the health and safety” of foreign workers (about 30,000). “That same commitment now extends to 150,000 employees from various tournament services and 40,000 employees from the hospitality industry,” he said in a statement.
Source: La Verdad
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