Reject Qatar 2022 World Cup, German Artist Sends Thousands of Deflated Balls to FIFA

DBasia.news – Qatar 2022 World Cup protests continue. This time, an artist from Germany did a unique way by sending 6,500 deflated balls to the FIFA office.

The appointment of Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup in 2010 has been controversial. Qatar is accused of being a country that has violated human rights. In addition, the issue of reduced LGBTQ+ rights is also a topic of discussion.

Another problem is the disclosure if around 6,500 migrant workers died while building the stadium that will be used at the 2022 World Cup. Inevitably, a wave of rejection of Qatar as the host was sticking out.

England national team coach, Gareth Southgate, admitted that he could not do much about the conditions that occurred in Qatar. In addition, England fans are also advised not to come directly to Qatar to reduce the risk.

Apart from football people, the polemic of Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup also invited German artist, Volker-Johannes Trieb, to act. He asked all parties to boycott the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Volker-Johannes Trieb said the tournament was held only for profit.

In the action, Volker-Johannes Trieb collected 6,500 deflated balls which were then scattered around the FIFA headquarters. The number of 6,500 balls was deliberately chosen to represent the 6,500 lives lost during the construction of the stadium.

“I want to send some pictures around the world and remember that there are many migrant workers who lost their lives on the construction site of the stadium that hosted the World Cup Qatar. They died inhumanely,” Volker-Johannes Trieb told 11freunde.

“With the large number of balls, I also wanted to make the very large number of deaths visible,” he added.

Trieb explained, the victims continued to grow. Therefore, he was moved to take action against the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

“Amnesty International is now talking about more than 15,000 victims. That is a very large number that at first glance is almost unbelievable.”

“Those people didn’t fall off the scaffolding easily. They died in various ways. Some of the injuries would never have ended in death in Germany,” said Volker-Johannes Trieb.

“Unfortunately, medical care for migrant workers in Qatar is so severe that they don’t stand a chance,” he said.

“I spoke to a human rights organization from Bangladesh. A coffin from Qatar comes there almost every day. The whole world now knows what happened. But they just looked away.”

FIFA tried to suppress the wave of rejection in various ways. One of them is to allow the hoisting of rainbow flags in stadiums as a symbol of support for the LGBTQ+ community.