The support promised by the players of the French team will go through generation 2018, an endowment fund “intended to finance actions with social impact”.
Le Monde With AFP
They will not wear “Brassard LGBT”, but the players of the French football team recalled, Tuesday, November 15, their “refusal of any form of discrimination”, before the 2022 World Cup, which begins Sunday in Qatar. They announced their intention to provide financial support to non -governmental organizations (NGO) working “for human rights”.
In a “collective letter” published on the Social networks , the defending world champions recognize that the event will take place in “a disturbed context”. “Each of us must take its share” of responsibility, they explain, joining other qualified nations which had already expressed itself on the subject, such as Australia or Denmark.
The Blues had so far remained quite discreet about human rights, a subject that has crystallized NGO reviews. “Our passion should not be the cause of the misfortune of some,” they insist, saying to themselves “sensitive” to “alerts of NGOs and associations”.
“Focus on football”
The financial support promised by the players of the French team will go through generation 2018, an endowment fund created in recent months by the world champions and “intended to finance actions with social impact” which are close to heart .
Several captains of European selections, including France, carried in September a rainbow armband in favor of inclusion and against discrimination. The initiative was to be extended during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.
It had been planned that the captain of the French team, Hugo Lloris, wears it, but the president of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët, said that he was not favorable. Hugo Lloris himself explained on Monday that he intended to “show respect” to the host country. “When we welcome foreigners [in France], we often have the desire to lend our rules and respect our culture. I will do the same when I go to Qatar. I can agree Or do not agree with their ideas, but I must show respect for this, “he said at a press conference, which aroused strong reactions.
Several qualified nations have taken a stand on these subjects in recent days. Australia published a video where fifteen players rose against human rights abuses committed in Qatar. The Danish selection had planned to train in Qatar with jerseys carrying a message for the respect of fundamental rights, before seeing its request rejected by the International Football Association (FIFA), organizer of the event. In a letter, in recent days she has urged the teams qualified to “focus on football” and not fall “in each ideological or political battle”.