{"id":94169,"date":"2022-11-18T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test2023.luxus-plus.com\/?p=94169"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:17:27","slug":"world-cup-in-qatar-controversy-before-the-start-of-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/world-cup-in-qatar-controversy-before-the-start-of-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] World Cup in Qatar: controversy before the start of the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The World Cup in Qatar has already caused a stir, but the debate surrounding the event is clearly not over.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The French president, Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, said a few days ago <em>&#8220;We must not politicise sport&#8221;<\/em>, regarding the<strong> World Cup in Qatar<\/strong>. This sentence was uttered after he announced that he would go to Qatar for the semi-final or the final if the<strong>French team<\/strong> was present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some object that the French President has already politicised sport in the past, notably by decorating athletes. <em>&#8220;This Legion of Honour obliges you&#8221;<\/em>, he assured the French football team, the 2018 world champions, in March 2019. <em>&#8220;It obliges you for the Nation, and for the youth of France who will need your commitment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12211\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12212\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/SIPA_ap22343388_000021-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a9 Francois Mori\/AP\/SIPA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/world-cup-in-qatar-controversy-before-the-start-of-the-competition\/?lang=en\">here<\/a> to read the full article on Luxus Plus Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo : \u00a9 Getty images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup in Qatar has already caused a stir, but the debate surrounding the event is clearly not over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":94205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"The World Cup in Qatar has already caused a stir, but the debate surrounding the event is clearly not over.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"World Cup,football,qatar,doha,Emmanuel macron,president,shakira,dua lipa,debate,controversy","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[24191,23468,23393],"class_list":["post-94169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-luxus-plus-mag-en-2","tag-qatar-en","tag-sport-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}