🧵 Six days ago, FIFA awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia. A decision that exposes everything wrong with football’s top leadership: corruption, lack of transparency, and total disregard for human rights. Who defends the values of the sport? Not the Danish FA (DBU). - ThreadSky

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social • 73 days ago

🧵 Six days ago, FIFA awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
A decision that exposes everything wrong with football’s top leadership: corruption, lack of transparency, and total disregard for human rights. Who defends the values of the sport? Not the Danish FA (DBU).

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vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

1/ FIFA’s decision on December 11th is a punch in the face to everything football should represent. Human rights, workers' rights, and transparency are trampled to fill FIFA’s coffers. Saudi Arabia bought the world’s biggest sporting event.

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

2/ 13.4 million migrant workers are the backbone of Saudi Arabia’s massive construction projects. They work in appalling conditions, often unpaid, in extreme heat, and with no rights. Thousands will pay with their lives - just as we saw in Qatar.

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

3/ DBU and other federations hide behind empty phrases about dialogue and cooperation. But where is the line? When workers die? When journalists are murdered? When regimes use sports to whitewash their brutality? FIFA’s World Cup isn’t just football. It’s politics, money, and cynicism.

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

4/ The football we love is being exploited. At the highest level, it’s no longer about sport but a tool for authoritarian regimes to gloss over their brutal realities. Sportswashing works because FIFA and national federations allow it to happen.

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

5/ Infantino promised transparency and democratic processes etc..

Now, critical questions are gone, press conferences are nonexistent, and comment sections are closed. Instead, Saudi Arabia’s “vision” is celebrated. Who still believes FIFA works for anything other than its own interests?

vaseaugustesen.bsky.social•73 days ago

6/ Football’s values? Sold long ago. Today, it’s not about the game, clubs, or fans - it’s about billion-dollar contracts, oil companies, and regimes with blood on their hands. While we hope for the best, FIFA continues to dig the sport’s grave.

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