Human Rights Watch: Rights At Risk As Saudi Arabia 'Sole Bidder' To Host 2034 World Cup
November 08, 2023
November 08, 2023
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
In 2013, then-FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke gave a press conference in which he clarified FIFA's strategy for choosing World Cup hosts: "I will say something which is crazy, but less democracy is sometimes better for organizing a World Cup. ...When you have a very strong head of state who can decide, as maybe Putin can do in 2018...that is easier for us organizers."
Mr. Valcke was . . .
In 2013, then-FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke gave a press conference in which he clarified FIFA's strategy for choosing World Cup hosts: "I will say something which is crazy, but less democracy is sometimes better for organizing a World Cup. ...When you have a very strong head of state who can decide, as maybe Putin can do in 2018...that is easier for us organizers."
Mr. Valcke was . . .