“The past flows into the future”
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It’s sad when you speak to a footballer and it’s impossible to discuss anything other than the ball.–Rachid Mekhloufi. The football World Cup of 1958 is mainly remembered for two men. The first is Pelé, and the second is Just Fontaine. On the way to the semi final, which they lost to Brazil, Fontaine scored…
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❝Almost 60 percent of Qatar’s 2.4 million population live in what the government calls “labour camps”, figures from an April 2015 census showed Sunday, highlighting the issue of the emirate’s huge migrant workforce.
The figures from the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) revealed that 1.4 million people live in what the department officially designates as “labour camps”.
At the time of the survey, the official population was 2.4 million.
That works out at just over 58 per cent of the country’s population.
The overwhelming majority — 1.34 million — were male, the statistics found. (...)
Qatar, which will host the football World Cup in 2022, has been condemned by human rights groups, including Amnesty International, for providing “squalid and cramped accommodation” for its large migrant workforce.
Last week, 11 people were killed and 12 injured when a fire ripped through a camp housing labourers working on a tourism project in the southwest of the country.
Qatar has responded to the criticism by building new workers’ housing complexes, including the $825 million “Labour City” south of the capital Doha, which incorporates shops, cinemas and a cricket stadium.
The complex can house up to 70,000 foreign workers and is one of seven workers’ “cities” being developed which will accommodate almost 260,000 people in total.
Sanctions, bientôt les affaires sérieuses : Coupe du monde de Football 2018 et Grand prix de Formule 1 de Sotchi en octobre.
MH17: World Cup 2018 shouldn’t be held in Russia, says Nick Clegg | Western Daily Press
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The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that allowing the Football World Cup 2018 to go ahead in Russia was “unthinkable” - and Russia’s first F1 Grand Prix which is due to take place in Sochi in October should also be cancelled.
He said it was “unthinkable” at present that the tournament could go ahead in the country blamed by the West for supplying arms to the separatist rebels accused of causing the deaths of all 298 on board.
Without a change of course by president Vladimir Putin, Mr Clegg said it would make the world look “so weak and so insincere” in its condemnation of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and support for the rebels.
Football’s world governing body Fifa this week ruled out calls from some German politicians for Russia to be boycotted, insisting the tournament could be “a force for good”.
Rainforest tribes seek World Cup spotlight | Climate News Network
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By Kieran Cooke
Tribal leaders from the Amazon rainforest are using the glare of publicity on the football World Cup in Brazil to highlight an impassioned plea for recognition of their lands and an end to dam building and deforestation
LONDON, 17 June − Chief Raoni Metuktire, head of the Kayapò indigenous group from the Xingu region, deep in the Amazon rainforest, sits in a packed lecture hall in London. With his jutting lip plate and large feather headdress, the elderly, gently-spoken tribal leader is an imposing presence.
