After the Norwegian footballers, the German national team also stood up for the workers working on the construction sites for the World Championships in Qatar. Before the initial qualifying match against Iceland, they played in tricks with the inscription “HUMAN RIGHTS”.
“The World Cup is approaching and we’re talking about it. We wanted to show that we don’t ignore it. We wrote it ourselves. We have a lot of influence and we can use it to promote the values we support. This was clear,” he told RTL midfielder Leon Goretzka, who in the first match in Duisburg with the first goal directed the German team to a 3-0 win.
Coach Joachim Löw confirmed that it was the players’ own initiative. “This is our first statement, as a team. We support human rights, regardless of location. These are our values. That is why it was a very appropriate and important statement,” Löw said.
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In a similar way, the Norwegians drew attention to the poor conditions of the workers in Qatar on Wednesday before the match on the field of Gibraltar. In Norway, there have been recent calls to boycott the championship next year.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, at least 6,500 foreign workers lost their lives in preparation for the tournament in Qatar. A spokesman for the organizers told Reuters on Thursday that 38 workers had died since 2014, three of them directly on construction sites.
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