Carbon assessment, flouted human rights, suspicions of corruption … One month from the World Cup organized in the emirate, enthusiasts face a dilemma: must they, or not, participate in what, by the Passed, has often been considered a celebration moment?
by
Look or not watch the World Cup, this is the question. One month before kick off the first match of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (from November 20 to December 18), the dilemma is tapping many football fans. “Like many, I vibrated in 1998 and in 2018, and I have always been a passionate spectator of the matches of the French team, especially on the occasion of the world festival of this sport that is the World Cup . However, this year I hesitate to watch the matches, “says Marie Mitjana-Huot, who answered the call for testimonies on the world site, like other people cited in this article. For this retiree established in Haute-Saône, “a feeling of disgusting replaced any future pleasure. We can say, without puns, that the cut is full”.
The reasons for discomfort is hardly missing: the often unworthy working conditions imposed on workers who have erected the infrastructure of the competition, the many dead on construction sites, the carbon footprint of the tournament, the rights of LGBT+, taboo subject in Qatar , and the suspicions of purchase of votes, in 2010, during the allocation of the 2022 World Cup by the International Football Federation (FIFA).
Result: the debate swells in France, fueled by the decisions of several major cities not to install giant screens to broadcast the competition. “In France, we are interested in football especially on the occasion of the World Cup”, notes Patrick Mignon, sociologist, who worked at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP) for twenty years. “In terms of football passion, it is very different from certain neighbors, such as England or Germany, where we distinguish love for the national team in the way in which the geopolitical aspects and the geopolitical aspects are managed and Climatic. “
The” TOOPE COMPAT “
Football – or sport, in general – did not wait to relocate to Qatar to pose a problem of conscience to his enthusiasts. The last football world cup in Russia (2018) or the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing (2022) have recalled that major sporting events sometimes ignore democratic questions. And social debates around the 2022 World Cup evoke those around the 1978 World Cup, in Argentina of the generals – the actors Vincent Lindon or Eric Cantona having succeeded writers Louis Aragon or Marguerite Duras as alert launchers.
In 1978, Jean-Luc Veron was 10 years old. “Young, perhaps too young to understand that the World Cup takes place in a country led by a dictator, too young to understand that a stone’s throw from the stadium where the final is played, we torture opponents of the regime in place “He looks at competition with his father. Now 54 years old, this IT project manager in Ille-et-Vilaine has eleven world on the clock, it now seems to him “impossible to watch this World Cup in Qatar” as he discovers behind the scenes. “I no longer have my 10 -year -old eyes.” Like him, many spectators share this feeling of “too much”.
You have 57.05% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.