Five months after denouncing the conditions of migrant workers on the 2022 World Cup construction sites in Qatar, the Norwegian selection has reoffended.
Before the match counting for the World Cup qualifiers against the Netherlands (1-1), the Scandinavian players deployed a banner calling for respect for human rights for migrant workers.
“
Fair play for migrant workers.
Human rights on and off the pitch
”, we can read on this poster held by the players.
It should be noted that Qatar does not appear anywhere on this banner but the gas country is indeed the target of this protest which also aims to put pressure on Fifa so that it demands from the organizing country respect for workers' rights in this country.
The Guardian said at the start of 2021 that 6,500 workers had been killed on construction sites since 2010 and the award of the World Cup.
A figure denied by Qatar since.
Supporters also display a banner
These revelations had prompted several Norwegian clubs to consider a boycott of the competition, encouraged by supporters who had mobilized on social networks to denounce working conditions in Qatar.
On Wednesday evening, part of the public also supported the players on the lawn with the deployment of another banner: “
Human rights for migrant workers.
"
The banner of the Norwegian supporters.
Fredrik Varfjell / REUTERS
The boycott issue had been seriously studied by the Norwegian Football Association, which called an extraordinary assembly on the subject last June.
A vote had even been taken.
368 Norwegian football representatives rejected the idea of a boycott and 121 spoke in favor of it.
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