Shujaa Mwendazake
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Washindi mara nne wa Kombe la Dunia walitoka katika hatua ya makundi nchini Qatar
Kuondolewa mapema kwa Ujerumani kutoka kwenye Kombe la Dunia la FIFA nchini Qatar ni "kufeli sana" kwa taifa hilo, kulingana na kocha wa zamani wa timu ya taifa ya Urusi Valery Gazzaev. Alishutumu wachezaji wa nchi hiyo kwa kutumia muda mwingi kwenye masuala ya LGBT kuliko soka.
Ujerumani iliondolewa kwa mara ya pili mfululizo katika hatua ya makundi kwenye Kombe la Dunia wakati ushindi wa Japan dhidi ya Uhispania Alhamisi usiku ulimaanisha kwamba timu ya Hansi Flick ilikuwa ikifungasha virago licha ya kupata ushindi dhidi ya Costa Rica.
Tangu kutwaa ubingwa wa Kombe la Dunia la Brazil 2014, Ujerumani sasa imeangukia kwenye kizingiti cha kwanza (in both the Russian and Qatari editions of the tournament.)
"Timu kama Ujerumani inaposhindwa kutoka katika kundi kwa Kombe la Dunia la pili mfululizo, ni ishara ya kushindwa katika soka ya Ujerumani," alisema Gazzaev katika mahojiano na Championat.
"Nadhani soka la Ujerumani litatoa hitimisho mwafaka. Hakika hii ni kushindwa. Ujerumani siku zote imekuwa kwenye orodha ya wanaopewa nafasi kubwa katika michuano mikubwa ya kimataifa, iwe ni Euro au Kombe la Dunia.
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For the past two years, the team has shown an extremely low level in terms of the game and the results.
“Hence the failure that happens for the second World Cup in a row. But it is worth noting that today there are teams in Qatar that are much stronger,” added Gazzaev, who led CSKA Moscow to the UEFA Cup title in 2005.
Gazzaev, 68, said that he expects “huge changes” in German football – not least as the country is hosting the 2024 UEFA European Championships.
“To sum up, at this particular World Cup, the impression was that the German national team at the 2022 World Cup devoted more time to LGBT issues than football,” added Gazzaev scathingly.
The build-up to Germany’s participation in Qatar was accompanied by discussions surrounding the team’s plan for captain Manuel Neuer to wear a ‘One Love’ rainbow armband in support of LGBT rights.
FIFA threatened sanctions against the Germans and six other European nations planning to make the step – prompting them to back down.
Instead, FIFA unveiled its own armbands for the tournament with a series of slogans including ‘No discrimination’, ‘Football unites the world’, and ‘Protect children’.
German players responded by covering their mouths for the team photo ahead of their opening game against Japan – suggesting they had been ‘gagged’ from sharing their support for gay rights in the strictly Muslim World Cup host country. Germany went on to lose that game 2-1.
Some fans in Qatar took to trolling the German team for their protest by holding up banners of former international star Mesut Ozil.
Ozil quit the German team after the World Cup in Russia, accusing the national media of making him a scapegoat and saying he was the victim of racism in Germany due to his Turkish roots.
Footage from Al Bayt Stadium on Thursday, where Germany beat Costa Rica but still crashed out of the World Cup, showed angry confrontations with Die Mannschaft fans and people holding up posters of Ozil.
Other figures in Qatar also rubbed salt into the German wounds, mocking the German protests while waving the team goodbye.
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