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, must be delighted with the chromatic proposal of Denmark for the World Cup in Qatar. It’s red. No more. It does not have a single ornament of another color. Only two stripes of a more intense red on the sides. Not even the shield of the federation or the logo of the sports brand (Hummel) stand out. In the second and third shirts (white and black) exactly the same thing happens. A nod to the past or an excess of modernity? No. An act of protest.
The sports house asserted that the shirt was not only a tribute to that Danish team that surprisingly won the 1992 European Championship (it went because of the international sanctions on Yugoslavia), but that it was a criticism of Qatar and its designation to organize a World Cup. football. “We don’t want to be visible during a tournament that has cost the lives of thousands of people. We support the Danish national team until the end, but that is not the same as supporting Qatar as the host country », Hummel commented on his social networks.
The newspaper ‘The Guardian’ 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 have to think about the injured and the relatives of the deceased,” Norwegian soccer president Lise Klaveness said forcefully at a FIFA meeting in March. And she 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. At the time, the authorities recognized three deceased. This Thursday, the QSC accused Hummel of trivializing his commitment “to protect the health and safety” of foreign workers (some 30,000). “That same commitment now extends to 150,000 workers in various tournament services and 40,000 workers in the hospitality sector,” he said in a statement.
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