Dusseldorf In less than a week, the whistle will sound for the opening match of the World Cup in Qatar. One thing is already clear: never before has a football World Cup produced so many negative headlines in the run-up to it: speculation about bribery even when the World Cup was awarded, allegations of human rights violations in the desert state, dead guest workers, the unusual time in the middle of the European winter. It will be difficult for many football fans to look forward to this World Cup without any worries.
Never before has a host country spent as much money on a football World Cup as Qatar: it is said to have been 220 billion euros. It’s no wonder that the small seed has hardly had the appropriate infrastructure for such a major event.
The national players have negotiated a bonus of 400,000 euros should they actually win the World Cup. A quarter of a million will be paid out if the team around coach Hansi Flick makes it to the final. For every player – of course.
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