The upcoming soccer World Cup in Qatar has long been criticized. However, many football fans don’t care about human rights violations – they want the World Cup to take place.
National player Lars Stindl asked the ZDF sports studio to clearly identify the problems in the World Cup host country Qatar. “In the next year the whole world will be looking at Qatar – and regardless of the looks we then have at the stadiums, the presentation, all the positive impressions, you can still point out the grievances there.” , says the player who kicks for Borussia Mönchengladbach every day.
This means that Stindl is significantly more critical than the majority of those who are interested in football. Only a third of the respondents from Germany said that the tournament should not take place in Qatar due to human rights violations. Even fewer (23 percent) are in favor of a boycott of the World Cup by the DFB-Elf. And so the proportion of women in favor of boycotts in this country is still relatively high, as a glance at the graphic shows. The least critical of Qatar are the Americans and the Chinese.
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