Demain le Sport: "Telling players 'don't go to Qatar' seems untenable to me" (François Hollande)

"On the situation today (in Qatar), where there was information about what the construction site represented, and then about the infringement of the climate rules, there is a boycott movement. But I can't ask the football players not to go to the competition they have been preparing for for years. The stance that says 'don't go' seems untenable to me. They must go, without the need to put pressure on them for whatever reason, however well established," said François Hollande, former President of France (2012-2017), during the first "Demain le Sport" conference on 22/09/2022.

"As for the stance telling viewers 'don't watch', fortunately no one is behind a viewer to know what he or she may or may not do. Finally, given the conditions of what we know of the climatic and construction conditions of this competition, if I were head of state, but I am no longer, so my position is easy, I would not go to Qatar," added the former head of state, who was interviewed on the theme "Sport at the service of diplomacy" in Studio 104 at the Maison de la Radio in Paris (FRA).

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