Former football manager Arsene Wenger has criticised World Cup teams who were focused on “political demonstrations” instead of football, suggesting it may be why those teams are already out of the competition.
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Its a kind of karma i guess.But i must say West should ban LGBTQ+. They deserve not hate but counselling
Respect and love for Qatar 🇶🇦 from India 🇮🇳
@blackpanthar90 ok, QATER don’t hire labour from india.
We don’t need to go mentali-disorder people Qater😈
@blackpanthar90 keep hire own QATARI PEOPLE; don’t hire from india….lol
@blackpanthar90 you know you tube didn’t show non sense comment
What are you trying to say
@india 🇮🇳 Don’t make nonsense comment then.😆
YouTube will ban if you make racist comments.
@blackpanthar90 and you and al Jazeera doing same thing
But cry when west also done the same thing
Allah u Akbar ✊️
Every media is biased
Look how hard they are trying to show qatar in a good way
Al Jazeera don’t you do politics on another countries internal matter.
Did you build enough toilets?
@Make racists afraid Again what this poor bl@ck doing here
Go and find food to eat
If player wants to make a political statement through football or ‘humanitarian statement’ in their words,one could have join politics or turn human right activist .I believe LGBT community basic rights should be safeguarded but it’s not the way European team impose it in Quater disrespecting local values forcefully.
German media reported today that it was the DFB marketing department that came up with the stupid mouth-cover-gesture. All German players were against it, except for Neuer and Goretzka. However, in the end the DFB marketing department won. The DFB is bad for German football and very bad for the German national team.
So believe the same thing for Palestinian statements or you’re a hypocrite.
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@Law Traf Most people who support Lgbt support palestine, its usually the other side who are hypocrites
I was wondering why al Jazeera would post this then I remembered its a Qatari media company
Nah…regardless of what they believe in and how they reacted on it, if they are there to win they will win no matter what. No excuses. That’s BS.
What politically good deeds making those countries themselves while criticizing others, that dirty politics just dragging all the good opportunities for all down.🤔
@Waleed Mir Al-Butin I understand that and im sure there are people with double standards who do that. Our governments and most companies are very hypocritical. Idiots can be found everywhere unfortunately. I agree with you on the US.
@Bill Carson what you don’t know Gaymany? It’s an EU country where Volkswagen are made. Don’t ring a bell, cut of your balls r u that dumb
@Elangbam You seem bitter, my friend.
@Bill Carson 😂😂😀😀😀
@Elangbam 😉
Its like the universe doesn’t want woke filth
Don’t mix sport with politics , but if it’s western politics it’s OK….Don’t mix sport with ideology, but if it’s western ideology it’s OK…Focus only in Football, but if it’s western issues it’s OK to shut your mouth..
@Uzaid Gurjeeagain people not the club or country … like i said the fans, what do you want to ban the flag ? Lmao you are comparing fans holding flags to 100+ football clubs supporting and sending messages with over 500+ players aswell doing the same and wearing arm bands and sruff … they are different mate
@Law Traf Do you fallow sport news or just reading “books” about sport? Look up what happened to Russia and compare it to the European Agenda in Qatar , we are talking about the hypocrisy and the double standards not defending Qatar per se .
Right on
@Tom and jerry without the jerry Players from national teams were doing it to
@Hinata 1 Morrocan player which is arabic held a flag … Morrocans showing support to Palestine isn’t something new mate it has been done before the world cup lol
Arsene Wenger is so right. The German team has one big problem and that is the DFB. The DFB is the German football organization. It was the DFB marketing department that came up with the stupid mouth-cover-gesture. All German players were against it, except for Neuer and Goretzka. However, in the end the DFB marketing department won. The DFB should get rid of Oliver Bierhoff and Holger Blask.
I sincerely hope that al Jazeera will get into this topic. The DFB is bad for German football and very bad for the German national team.
Absolutely correct boss
England on the wall .Its too late Mr Wenger let the Germans go raise the armband flag from the west not here in a muslim community
I don’t even know if these football players know what they’re doing. In fact, that counts for a lot of people. Not that I have a problem with making fun of them, the more the better. They’re responsible for their own actions. But this is bigger. There’s such a pressure to take a stance and who can be against human rights? Nobody.
The propaganda campaign was successful from that point of view and their objective was achieved. However, I think they’ll lose anyway in the long term. I think the positive will come out louder than the negative. This WC was so good that this is hopefully how it will be remembered for the most part.
when the whistle blows i dont think anyone is thinking about supposed ‘politics’ they just want to win the game lool that is an excuse. these teams got knocked out because they were not good enough. im sure if they won yall would have nothing to say lool. If theres an issue with politics why was there a say no to racism campaign”? why was there the rainbow laces campaign?
It’s not about the German players individually, it’s about the German team as a whole (the coach, the officials on the DFB). It’s not about they’re doing while doing on the field, but rather their entire preparation off of the field as well.
Kindly remember Afghanistan 🇦🇫 please 🇦🇫.
Zama wror🤍🇵🇹🙌🏼
Qatar govt have to shutdown close Taliban and Haqqani Network office please.
As far I know about the Taliban Office, it was a request by the United States to the Qatar Government. The withdrawal of the Western Forces in Afghanistan is part of the deal.
@Norman 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
This is what happens when you train with the wrong set of balls.
😂
The rainbow 🌈 🌈 bballs😂
Hahaha they chose the wrong balls for training and using the right balls in competitions.
Qatar sponsor terrorism and spread hate speech via al Jazeera
*L* ets
*G* et
*B* ack home
*T* onight
Sport is part of culture of a nation. And culture is part of politics. The problem started after some teams clearly wanted to target a specific problem of the host but never made a statement to other bigger problems in the world including in their home country. It’s easy to point fingers to others, to spread a message of the western civilisation. Many are tired of that.
Politics is not to blame! Gaymany pale feeble gay players just couldn’t compete with the staunch macho Samurai players of Japan
Play for your country, rather acting political in hosting country, atleast respect the law, culture of Hosting country – Qatar world cup is ❤️❤️ 👆👍👍 Qatar ,🇧🇭won the hearts 💕 due to their hospitality
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Also its 🇶🇦😂🤍🙌🏼
Sexuel deviation and fetishism were never a human rights, you are free to believe and practice what ever you want on your home but inn public you must obey the civil rules of qatar
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To avoid political impact on game; should have been abandon QATER 2022 world cup.☺☺
WORSE WORLD CUP I HAVE EVER SEEN, asper performance is concern. SHAME ON
Indeed
They are better in politics not football. Let them rest and go home.
Critising a country that supplies your gas and keeps your heating on is dumb
German players go to homes and then become great politicians because they have a lot of output becoming politicians.
@소윌캥 컇늑 again mr troll ..english is not your first language ….you are lost in translation & interpretation.
@RR M you look lost boy the way you flapped your gums around here and I won’t be suprised if you were a European because I do smile everytime you start lecturing and spewing the so called truths of yours when in fact it is all lies and bigotry once again you’re attacking the Krauts your bedfellow hypocrites when in fact you are all on the same boat hahaha
@소윌캥 컇늑 I m glad that I m not European or American …but somebody that travel extensively around the world …not like yourself still living in cave & preaching about how the world works from your couch . Lolol so long caveman !!
Btw ur google translation is not working well .. u wrote “flapped your gums??” Are u serious …..hahahahahah hilarious
Islam and even Christianity do not allow homosexuality
@Sulumsulum indeed but that’s beside the point this fifa representative is making
Legendary Coach
Australia had its best performance of any world cup before it though they scored every game, 2 clean sheets the only teams it lost to had more then a billion dollar price difference between the players…
in 2026 the players should make out after every goal
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🤢🤮🤢🤮aren’t Australia full of gay players. No wonder your country sucks. It will never be a world champion
Disgrace game of the CENTURY…fifa 82 Spain. GERMANY vs AUSTRIA
Like Germany never done anything wrong before, they used to be like that too as host during 1936 Berlin Olympics.
What?
What they confirmed is that the cup is already manipulated…perhaps they even know who is gonna win the cup …
That’s true. The mindset must be focus on the competition and aims for the goal not political purposes.
Additionally, the player may express their opinions after winning the world championship or after being eliminated and sent home, but not while the game is in progress and the audience is present to see the games, not the politics.
It’s good reminder to the professional players.
If everyone focuses on their own business, helpless and voiceless people will be left alone to fight thier battle.. proud of German and Danish team..
@THE END GAME 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
@Nathan Merritt 👆👆sᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀ’ᴍ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ✍️
Focus on the right issue, not the wrong one
Last I remember Germany 🇩🇪 had caused two world wars.. Just saying, hypocrite
If you luv di*k don’t convince the others.
He said it better waiting for England 🏴 to be knocked out
Please Don’t play politics.
Its sports.
Please do it, if you can.
I thought they all buy their oil from Qatar. And why was Russia excluded and Saudi Arabia and others weren’t?
Like qatar. 1st team to out🤭🤭🤭🤭
P@j€€t alert! Pity that you can’t get a job in Qatar! How’s the toilet building in ENDia going?
Yes !!!!the hypocrites demons lost and must go home
They didn’t play well that’s it
And we r okay with it… They deserve to be get lost in initial stages…
You can make political demonstrations at the winning stage, there it will mean something.
It’s called ” Qudrat ka nizam ” . Anyone speaks against it gets out .
Qatar is a beautiful country Alhamdulila.
Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest.
Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest.
Tasbeeh
Tilawat of QURAN
Tahajud Namaz
Taqwa of Allah.
Bismillah Hir rahman nir raheem
Always begin your day with Fajr prayer and Ayat AL KURSI.
READ QURAN EVERYDAY AND NEVER IGNORE YOUR FIVE DAILY PRAYERS
Yes Sir. Let’s ignore the crimes and killings and just play football like zombies. Lol 😆
There is already place for politics.
If heart doing what brains do, or the brains do what the kidneys do, or the kidneys do what the pancreas do. The whole organism will be collapsed.
Every part do specifically according to their responsibility.
If LGBT allowed, then why Palestine Flag disallowed by FIFA prior. And ofcourse lot of people want to join the party, such as myanmar, uighur, ukraine, syria, iran, iraq, palestine, armenia, azerbaijan, pkk, julian assange, and every one feel oppresed want to give political message on the World Cup. And of course it will collapse the event itself. No one gonna watch it, because its not sport anymore.
Eurovision songfestival in Israël nobody talked about the Palestine, 2 times the summer and winter Olympics in China and nobody even protested on the Oeigoer case
I like kickball as much as the next guy but if it’s being televised it’s a political platform.
Like germany came for politics not to play
yea Qatar won the first game!
From hand to mouth🤭to hand in forehead🤦🏻♂️
😂😂😂😂 good one
Nonsense. how is players hand over mouth for 1 minute affect perfomance? Paid Shill.
When politics fail, sports prevails.
Seperate sports and politics
so want say Separate church and state
Aljazeera is also being biased here.. I don’t think they lost because of political reasons. Qatar, the host nation was the first one to be out. Australia went all the way to Top 16. It was just coincidence that Germany & Denmark were sent home early. They lost because many countries have stepped up their games. Who would have thought Australia, USA, Japan, South Korea & Morocco would advance to Top 16, all at the same time? Saudi even beat Argentina on their first game. It’s called the World Cup for a reason. The ball is round and it’s not always the same countries who make it.. At the end of the day, it’s about how well the team played against their opponent, coupled with luck.
Haha AlJazeera, relax. I understand football is not the place for politics. But stop pushing your agenda and accept that Human rights conditions in Qatar are dire. There’s no correlation between political views and Performance. If that was the case, then England wouldn’t have made it past the group, let alone meeting France in the QF.
More than politics or human rights, they were protesting for Qatar to establish LGBT rights, that’s a disrespect to Qatars culture. Focus on the issues which really matters, not just whatever biased western media tells you to
But England were the ones that clouted the most politically and the last I checked, they are still in the world cup ….just thinking
They will go down soon
Respect for Qatar.
Keep football as a sport domain, not for political demonstrations.
Good lessons for the westerners to respect other cultures and focus on sport not politic.
Qatar mouth piece Al Jazeera respect other countries that they will respect them.
They create so much propoganda against other countries (especially towards india saudies, isreal, west) but if some one do the same thing they start playing victim card
@india 🇮🇳 Hindu as usual following colonial orders
Propaganda of Illuminati are being defeated
All those who haven’t protested like Uruguay, Belgium, did they go to the knock out stage, Mr Wenger? There is no logic in your outburst Mr Wenger.
Hahaha those using the wrong balls would not accept critism.
Australia and England protested the most aswell and are/did very well
@Hinata their stupidity was their inability to differentiate between playing politic and playing football.
They were not paid to play politic but to play football.
@Hinata Australia did well? So losing 4-1 on the first game is well for you?
England fans supported the oppressed Palestinians and I haven’t seen the English protest as much as the other Western countries. Denmark and Germany protested the most and they tasted the consequences of that.
Hitler must be laughing at Germans double standards.
Thier is a huge difference between Germany 1945 and Germany of 2022
And if al Jazeera can create a propoganda against other countries (like india, west,saudies) then they also have a right to do the same thing to them
when you cant play well, here the excuses, instead learn how to play football bros
Football is No longer a sports for 97 percent heterosexual men that watch it instead it has turned into a rainbow 🌈 politics circus who plan to indoctrinate children
Use fame for positive purposes. Not everyone is an Arab to just focus on the money. Aljazeera stop ur propaganda and address labour issues of ur masters
Well said the goat 🐐 keep politics out of football ⚽️, the west has zero morals and always want to teach the rest of world 🌎 how to live their lives, Fox examples the United States 🇺🇸 has one of the biggest base in tiny Gatar why they said anything, hypocrite to highest level
Oh pls don’t blame on politics for poor performance by your players. Gaymany not reaching knock out round has not to do with politics. It has a lot to do with the feeble pale gay Germans not fit to face the manly Samurai players of Japan
A week into the tournament news comes out that China signed a gas deal and we know a while back that Qatar didn’t agree to supplying Europe with gas, makes you wander was this all about Human right or just plain greed and politics
That makes no sense since England was political too
Realy German team won the world rainbow cup , they deserve it to win .
Had these overpaid & overhyped so-called ‘sportsPERSONS’ (sic) had any decency & self respect, they would not have even gone to Qatar. We saw how fickle & cowardly the likes of Kane were when threatened with a mere yellow card (what an appropriate colour!), when he & the others proclaimed that they would be wearing perversion advertisements. The hypocrisy, racism & Islamophobia which these nobodies have helped to disseminate is indicative of the foul psyche that their cultures is built upon.
From Germany to gaymany
Actually it’s ozil curse that Germany lost 😁
Omg Qatar a tiny country has delivered such a great message to the entire world….has exposed the western mindsets, Media outlets….
Qatar has won a World Cup without lifting a trophy…
It is not a small power
And if al Jazeera English can speak against them
Then they have also have right to do the same with qatar
Al Jazeera also run an agenda on other countries
So what is the difference between arab and the west
They are same
@india 🇮🇳 Al Jazeera reports more than anyone; I’m not saying they’re fully independent; but you can clearly say it’s independent then BBC, CNN others like these
These people sound delusional wtf is wrong with them? You want to protest AND play in Qatar on your terms? Why don’t you just refuse to play if you are that serious about your politics? do they think we still live in 1890 ?
Qatar also run agenda on other countries now west is doing the same
So what wrong in that
sports n politics have always been there.
so, watchu talkin’bout willis??
Thanks Arsen
Arsene Infantino
How dare Australian players talk about human right
We know how Australia treats the indigenous like animals
Jaisa karoge waisa bharoge
Germany returns home 😁😁😁😁😁
We spectators so so tired of this woke bullshit
What about Qatar? The only team to lose all three matches! I can’t agree with Fifa’s stands that we need to focus solely on the game. World Cup is the best platform for us to advocate any sort of issues and concerns we face as human beings (climate change, Palestine, child marriage, queer community rights, clean water, or whatever it is) These issues are far more important to us rather than football. As Muslim, I don’t have a problem with Australia and German raising their voice on the issues that they believe in. But what irks me is that they are completely biased and disrespectful.
What these athletes or actors and actresses need to understand is that they are in the position they are not because of their political/social views and frankly they neither have the responsibility or foundational understanding to make political/social statements nor do a large part of the society cares about their opinions. Stick to your job. We have politicians for that purpose
It’s sad how he’s sold out, England focused on politics and are doing well, Australia focused on politics and did much better than anyone thought, his point doesn’t make any sense 😭
You cannot separate politics from people and their social lives.
The only reason Qatar is getting a pass is due to the huge money they’ve poured into these corrupt voices.