WORLD'S IN MOTION
Irish Sunday Mirror|November 20, 2022
No stopping what Infantino started in the desert
NEIL SQUIRES
WORLD'S IN MOTION

THE most divisive World Cup in history is finally here.

When Qatar and Ecuador kick it off today a miracle will have come to pass. A tiny, dot on the desert map will have pulled off the unbelievable.

The World Cup should never have come here but it is here and the Qataris can sit back and bask in the fact that for the next four weeks their country will be the centre of the world’s attention. That aspect, much more than the football, was the plan all along.

The problem, of course, with courting attention is that curious onlookers will be drawn to things you might not want them to see.

So it has been with Qatar and its treatment of migrant workers and LGBTQ rights.

This story is from the November 20, 2022 edition of Irish Sunday Mirror.

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