The name “Open Stadiums” is a reminder that women in Iran have been denied access to football stadiums “for moral reasons” since 1979 (the Federal Chancellor was then called Bruno Kreisky and the terms of office were longer). Although there were brief exceptions in 2019 at the gentle urging of FIFA, women who wanted to see the Iran vs. Lebanon match with valid tickets were already violently prevented from doing so in March of this year, although Infantino had declared in 2019: ” Now there is no stopping us and there is no going back.” As a member of the FIFA Advisory Committee, which he forms together with the six confederation presidents, this same Infantino would now have the power to create facts in the sense of human rights. However, the WiFi in his cottage in Qatar seems to be so weak that he hasn’t even managed to reply to the letter addressed to him personally by Open Stadiums. So we have to put up with the fact that the paper on which the FIFA statutes are printed seems to be particularly patient.
Oh, by the way… – FIFA’s particularly patient paper
