DFB embarrassment in Qatar: A swatter for the moral world champion

Created: 11/23/2022, 4:10 p.m

By: Georg Anastasiadis

Georg Anastasiadis, editor-in-chief of Münchner Merkur, comments on the DFB's withdrawal in the dispute with FIFA over the "One Love" armband, as worn in the picture by DFB captain Manuel Neuer.

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The disgrace is great.

The Germans, as moral world champions, experience a debacle in the "One Love" dispute with FIFA.

The DFB should have kept the ball flat from the start, comments Georg Anastasiadis.

In one discipline, FC Germany can no longer take the World Cup title away: blowing up the cheeks.

But in the end, the matter with human rights was not worth more than a portion of free courage to the German Football Association.

The subtle hint of a possible yellow card from the corrupt crook shop FIFA was enough to make the ominous "One Love" bandage disappear very quickly.

Meanwhile, the Iranian footballers showed how courage works with their silent protest against their murderous mullah regime.

What a bottomless embarrassment for the moral world champion even before the first game kicked off!

Clap for Germany, which loves to wag its finger

The swatter hurts so much because it is so characteristic of a Germany that loves to wave its index finger in front of the whole world, but only as long as it doesn't cost anything.

Before the embarrassingly failed uprising of decent people in the DFB, Federal Gas Minister Robert Habeck – who is from the Green Human Rights Party – did not see anything wrong with curtsying to the Qatari Emir.

And we remember: Our politicians couldn't get enough outraged about the evil Hungarians during the migration crisis in 2015 - only to sigh with relief when Orban built the fence and kept the migrants off the Europeans' necks.

And the self-intoxicated world saviors of the “last generation”?

They were by no means stuck, as one might have expected, on the streets of the climate summit organizer and CO2 sinner Egypt.

If you want to stand up for values, you should do it with all your might.

But if you're just out for cheap applause, it's better to keep the ball a little flatter.

George Anastasiadis