Soccer's top officials have urged the 32 teams preparing for the most political World Cup in the modern era to focus on the game in Qatar and avoid handing out lessons in morality.
A letter urging teams to “let
The Emir two weeks ago denounced “fabrications and double standards” in what he has called an “unprecedented campaign” against a World Cup host nation. The Netherlands plays Qatar on Nov. 29 in Group A and the team's officials pledged on Friday to press FIFA on creating a long-term resource center in Doha for migrant workers when world soccer's 211 member federations meet hours before attending the World Cup opening game.
“We know football does not live in a vacuum and we are equally aware that there are many challenges and difficulties of a political nature all around the world,” the FIFA leaders wrote on Thursday in their letter that did not address or identify any specific issue. In a separate in-house interview published on Friday by FIFA, Samoura acknowledged the perception of Qatar "as a conservative society, like my own country in Senegal."
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