Because of Qatar: fan representative attacks Bayern patron Hoeneß in the strongest terms – "It's a shit show"

Created: 2022-11-14, 5:19 p.m

By: Patrick Mayer

Honorary President of FC Bayern: Uli Hoeneß (Mid.).

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The football World Cup in Qatar is polarizing enormously even before it starts.

A fan representative from Germany criticized Bavaria's Honorary President Uli Hoeneß with harsh choice of words.

Munich/Qatar – It is imminent: The 2022 World Cup in Qatar (November 20th to December 18th).

The giant tournament is accompanied by plenty of criticism of the human rights situation in the emirate.

There are now numerous reports of dead workers on the World Cup construction sites between Doha and ar-Rayyan

and al Khour.

Qatar: Uli Hoeneß from FC Bayern defends World Cup hosts

Most recently, Qatar's World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman caused a stir with allegedly homophobic statements, which German international Leon Goretzka (FC Bayern), among others, clearly criticized.

Qatar is a close partner of the German Bundesliga record champions through the state-owned Qatar Airways.

For years, he has been criticized in the organized German fan scene because of his partnership with the Qatari royal family.

Recently, honorary president Uli Hoeneß defended the host of the 2022 World Cup.

Hoeneß suddenly called Sport1 in the football talk "Doppelpass" and said: "The World Cup and the commitment of FC Bayern and other sports activities will ensure that working conditions in Qatar improve.

Only Qatar is discussed, not Dubai, Kuwait and so on.

The only country where things are getting better is Qatar.”

A well-known fan representative from the organized fan scene in Germany has now sharply attacked the 70-year-old ex-national player for his attitude towards Qatar.

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"It's quite a special shit show running around the top of our beloved sport of football.

I don't think Uli Hoeneß is capable of it, but it would be advisable to take a deep look and look at the whole thing from the outside," said Dario Minden, deputy chairman of the fan umbrella organization "Our Curve", in an interview with

.

According to the article, Minden said to the Qatari ambassador at the DFB Human Rights Congress at the end of September: “I am a man and I love men.

(...) Get used to it or get out of football.”

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In the interview, Minden also addressed dead guest workers in Qatar.

Again and again there had been reports of allegedly inhumane working conditions on the World Cup construction sites.

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For example, in February 2021, the British newspaper

reported that around 6,500 guest workers from five Southeast Asian countries had died in the emirate between 2010 and 2020.

That writes the

.

However, it is unclear where the guest workers died and under what circumstances.

"Boycott Qatar": Protest against the 2022 World Cup in the SC Freiburg Bundesliga stadium.

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Minden said: "Yes, we do not know the actual number of deaths, but a number of people died in the construction of stadiums and infrastructure.

People like Hoeneß are caught in their hamster wheel and are firmly convinced that no matter where the planet is burning, their way of acting and doing business is the right one.

The train seems to have left for him.” Numerous organized fan groups from the so-called ultras scene had called for a TV boycott of the World Cup games in many German football stadiums in the past few weeks.

Hoeneß, meanwhile, verbally quarreled with member Michael Ott at FC Bayern's most recent annual general meeting, who is considered the main critic of cooperation with Qatar within the club.

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Qatar Airways' sponsorship contract runs from 2018 to 2023. According to

, Bayern should collect 20 million euros a year for the sponsorship on the sleeves of the jerseys.

CEO Oliver Kahn repeatedly announced that after the end of the 2022 World Cup (read the schedule here) he wants to decide on Qatar's further sponsorship.

Minden not only criticized Hoeneß and Bayern, but also the German Football Association (DFB).

People like Hoeneß are caught in their hamster wheel.

Dario Minden, fan organization "Our Curve", at t-online

"There is hardly a national association that has such weight as the German Football Association.

One hides as 'little Germany', although Germany is a very large, influential industrial nation.

'We can't do anything alone', they say.

At the congress in Doha at the beginning of March, Lise Klaveness from the Norwegian Football Association was the only one who got up and talked tacheles," he said on

: "The DFB - like all the years before - was silent."

He doesn't expect much, Minden continued: "The DFB is very burdened by the past, structurally it is a cumbersome, non-transparent association.

But I already see more progressive forces, especially in the second row, who want to move the football association forward.

I want to certify that to the association.

The people who are at work now are of a different caliber than the full-scale human catastrophes that preceded them.

It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to change something in the long term.”