✍️ Fifa insist sport and politics should not mix – but holding a World Cup in Qatar is entirely about politics 🟢 Analysis from GARSIDEK Qatar2022 Read more here ➡️
None of this was ever made explicit, at least by the bad guys. The manipulation of the sporting platform has become ever more subtle and refined in line with the development of sport as entertainment. Once sport became a broadcast commodity involving vast sums of money, organisations like Fifa and the International Olympic Committee became ever more politicised and corruptible.
Qatar 2022 is a $200bn project for the host nation shovelling profits of $7.5bn into the Fifa piggy bank, a six fold increase in 20 years since Korea and Japan hosted the tournament. Where’s there’s brass there’s muck. Fifa’s prosecution of its duties in the age of plenty led to criminal investigations across four continents in 2015, resulting in 18 indictments.
Infantino emerged from the ashes of predecessor Sepp Blatter’s figurative funeral pyre promising a new way of doing business. There is only one way. The human way. Infantino is as vulnerable as the next man to persuasion. Today he lives the life of Crassus, a private-jet flying, potentate-coupling empire-builder who bends arguments to fit any cause.
Infantino has broken no laws. No wrong doing was ever pinned to Qatar regarding the award of World Cup 2022. Yet here we are at a tournament exposed to political infighting and moral fracture, where players are asked to bear the burden of protest and pilloried when, in impossible circumstances, they demure in order to fulfil their obligations as footballers. England’s players and coach have made their positions known.
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