This Tuesday, November 22, 2022, when France played its first match in this World Cup in Qatar, Bixente Lizarazu could not help but utter a rant.
The World Cup in Qatar has started for the Blues. This Tuesday, November 22, 2022, they faced Australia. A match awaited by French supporters, even if some do not hesitate to castigate this competition which, according to them, does not respect human and ecological rights. It must be said that the sporting event is at the heart of many controversies, particularly with regard to the presence of air conditioning in the stadiums. On site, Bixente Lizarazu failed to contain his anger when his sidekick, Grégoire Margotton gave information on the match.
Indeed, the commentator said: “24 degrees without air conditioning, it was turned off two hours before the game“, he explains. But the former French international gave him a small clarification: “Two hours before, not sure, because we really felt it. We blocked it behind us” he retorted, visibly annoyed. It must be said that the presence of this air conditioning does not really only make people happy. And he’s not the only one unhappy. Indeed, many of them called for a boycott of the competition. Starting with Vincent Lindon: “We are in a giant asylum, it’s incredible! The same year, there are Winter Olympics in a country where there is no snow, and a World Cup in a country where it is 60 degrees in the shade and where they’ve built 10, 12 refrigerated stadiums. It’s not only a climatic aberration but an ecological aberration. And on top of that, there’s a lack of respect for human rights ideology. man”.
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The actor clarifies his thoughts: “I would love to turn into a great footballer and do a press conference, to say ‘There, I’ve had the Ballon d’Or X times, I’m extremely in demand, I earn a lot, a lot of money, I’ve made the decision not to go to the World Cup, without telling my coach or my country, it’s my decision. Gentlemen, ladies’ and I get up”. Same story with Eric Cantona :“I will not watch a single match of this World Cup. (…) Already, because Qatar is not a football country! No fervor, no flavor. An ecological aberration, with all these air-conditioned stadiums. .. what madness, what stupidity! But above all, above all, a human horror… how many thousands of deaths, to build these stadiums, for in the end what, amuse the gallery for two months… and everyone doesn’t care fucks… The very caricature of what man is capable of carrying in him as extreme filth!”, he explains.
Laurent Blanc’s opinion
But do we really have to sanction in some way the players and not watch the World Cup? Laurent Blanc gave his opinion: “Should we play the World Cup or not? Once the choice is made on a candidate, or that we are not sure of certain things, we must say it immediately, he continued. C It’s tricky to question everything. The World Cup starts in 15 days, the athletes have to prepare. I can understand but the players do how? A World Cup, it’s getting ready. There will be the World Cup, a winner and why not our country”