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E60 Qatar's World Cup (2:16)
In 2014, E60 went to Qatar to study connected the plight of migrant workers there. This spring, they went back, to spot what has changed, and not changed, successful the past 8 years. (2:16)
France skipper Hugo Lloris has said determination is "too overmuch pressure" connected players to protestation astatine the upcoming Qatar World Cup.
Qatar has travel nether aggravated unit implicit its attraction of overseas workers, restrictive societal laws and LGBTIQ rights, starring to galore teams participating raising concerns, though the state has denied claims that workers were exploited.
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Last month, Australia's squad spoke retired against Qatar's record connected quality rights and same-sex relationships, portion Denmark's players volition question to the World Cup without their families arsenic a protestation against Qatar's quality rights record.
Earlier this month, FIFA urged nations to instrumentality to shot and not absorption connected authorities surrounding the big federation and Tottenham Hotspur's goalkeeper Lloris agrees with the organisation.
"Honestly, I hold [with FIFA's sentiment]," Lloris said. "There's excessively overmuch unit connected the players. We are astatine the bottommost of the chain.
"If you person to use pressure, archetypal of each it had to beryllium 10 years ago. Now it's excessively late. You person to recognize that for players this accidental happens each 4 years and you privation each accidental to succeed. The absorption has to beryllium connected the field. The remainder is for politicians. We are athletes."
Manchester United midfielders Bruno Fernandes and Christian Eriksen were the past high-profile footballers to hit retired astatine the timing of this year's World Cup connected Sunday.
Lloris volition pb the defending satellite champions into the tourney with France facing Australia, Tunisia and Denmark successful Group D.
"To beryllium the defending champions is not an casual task," Lloris added. "If you look astatine the past 3 erstwhile champions they struggled a batch and didn't spell done the radical stage," said Lloris.
"This is the archetypal target. We person to play astatine our champion and past we cognize it's going to beryllium a antithetic contention from the last-16 onwards. In 1 game, thing is possible."
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