Fabulously wealthy little Qatar wanted to make a splash in the world, to become the cynosure of all eyes, however briefly, to be known for something other than its natural gas deposits and its bulging bank account. That is why, back in 2010, the Qataris went to work and bribed FIFA to let it host the 2022 World Cup in its capital, Doha. But that favorable attention Qatar was expecting from hosting the World Cup – well, it hasn’t exactly turned out that way
Money’s conquest of sports has never been as sweeping, unabashed, corrupt, and inhuman as soccer’s World Cup became en route to the month-long tournament that opened on Sunday in Qatar, and which can be decried already as an international farce, a moral atrocity, and an Arab tragedy.
Migrant workers were indispensable to making the World Cup 2022 possible, but it has come at a great cost for many migrant workers and their families who not only made personal sacrifices, but also faced widespread wage theft, injuries, and thousands of unexplained deaths