Sports politician Philip Krämer sees the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as a “massive step backwards for sport, which will have to be caught up in the next few years”.
Philip Krämer, member of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Bundestag, sees the controversial World Cup in Qatar in 2022 as a “massive step backwards for sport that needs to be made up for in the next few years”.
However, the deputy chairman is skeptical about the future, there are also human rights violations in Mexico, one of the three organizers of the 2026 World Cup, Kramer told “SID”. “There are hundreds of thousands of people missing because of the drug war,” said the deputy at a panel discussion in Berlin.
Security guarantees for visitors to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar “absolute minimum”
The world association FIFA must take responsibility for its events, it needs “monitoring and clear intermediate goals, and if it turns out that they are not being met, you have to think about alternative awards.”
The security guarantees for all World Cup visitors, which Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser had brought from Qatar, were described by Krämer as the “absolute minimum”.
The guarantees “should have been part of the award,” said the 30-year-old. In addition, it is “politically central that changes that have actually been initiated in some parts are also implemented in laws in the long term”.