Followers are caught trying to smuggle booze into the Football World Cup stadium
Mexican followers tried to sneak booze into the Qatar Football World Cup stadium in a flask veiled as binoculars, but the hapless fans were caught, and it was seized. Footage shows a fan clad in a green football shirt holding next to three officials. The supporter is at the security scanners which they must go through to be let into the stadium. One of the officials seems to tell the other that there is something suspicious about the binoculars.
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The other official holds them up to look through with them their intended use. But he then looks more closely. As he detaches the middle part, he smells it and realizes that the man was trying to run alcohol into the stadium Amidst the ban on alcoholic drinks in the perimeter of the stadium, the binoculars were then seized. The man was carrying a pair of eyeglasses that double as a travel water bottle flask the unusual item is commonly available online. The video, which has racked up more than 182,000 views on Twitter, has drawn a swathe of fascinated commenters. While a host of others commented with laughing emojis. Meanwhile, others agreed with the security and told they were right to seize the booze and impose the ban.
It comes days after the alcohol ban was declared in the typically teetotal nation of Qatar where tourists can only buy or drink alcohol inside licensed hotels or restaurants. Exceptions for the Football World Cup would have meant fans were able to buy beers in special 'fan zones' or on stadium concourses. Then Qatar defaulted on part of that deal, meaning beer is now only bought inside the fan zones. Pints cost
£12 and are only offered at certain times, and each person is limited to four maximums to stop them from getting drunk.
Someone who does get drunk hazards being taken away until they sober up. Followers in Qatar last week responded with a mix of anger and acceptance at the ban, with 25 year old England follower Alex Todd describing it as madness. Why is the Football World Cup here when basic pleasures are taken from you, he asked. It was the latest debate to plague an already fraught Football World Cup the first to be held in a Muslim nation which has thrown football's governing ethos and conventional frills into conflict with the hosts' moderate understanding of Islam.
German fan Daniel Schwestka, 30, from Dusseldorf, stated: “Football without beer is not football. I go to many games even in the third German leagues, and you can have a beer. It is normal to drink beer at football, and this is the Football World Cup. When I came to Doha, I had two bottles of whiskey, in my luggage and they took it from me at the airport. I knew it was going to be tough to drink here. Then how can they ban beer at the actual stadiums? It is absurd ”
Brian Davidson, the first fan in Qatar to drink an official Football World Cup beer told: “I’m shocked, it doesn't make common sense What is wrong with having a beer at a game? Beer wasn't going to be sold within the stadiums anyhow, just on the forecourt Millions of people are coming from all over the world, and they just want to watch football, enjoy the sun, and knock back a few beers.”
I will just have to go to the Fan Zones or a hotel for a drink although it's a real pity that the Qataris have applied this ban. The full FIFA statement supposed: Following discussions between host country experts and FIFA, a decision has been made to emphasize the sale of alcoholic beverages at the FIFA Fan Festival, other fan termini, and licensed places, eliminating sales points of beer from Qatar’s FIFA World Cup stadium perimeters. There is no effect on the sale of Bud Zero which will remain open at all of Qatar’s Football World Cup stadiums.
Host country agencies and FIFA will continue to make sure that the stadiums and adjacent areas provide an entertaining, respectful, and pleasant feel for all followers. The tournament organizers welcome knowledge and continuous support to our joint dedication to cater to everyone throughout the Football World Cup. FIFA had already made one compromise last week to the Qatari hosts on the accessibility of Budweiser in stadiums. Organizers claimed the Budweiser allowance stands were too visible, so FIFA decided to move them into positions where they would be less noticeable. Such changes are highly rare so close to the start of a tournament Football World Cup.
Just three months ago, FIFA also decided to move the starting date of the tournament Football World Cup a day earlier so the hosts would be playing in the only game on that day. Qatar v Ecuador was played on November 20. The only place alcohol can now be purchased in or around stadiums will be in the hospitality boxes, which start at $22,450 per game. Those lucky enough to get a seat in a box are promised 'soft drinks, beers, Champagne, sommelier selected wines, and premium spirits' both before, throughout, and after the game.
The sale of alcohol is hardly the only debate that has plagued the Qatar Football World Cup, which is being played in the winter because summer temperatures in the desert nation frequently top 40C. Heat will still be strong, even in winter, with daytime heats hovering around 30C with punishing humidity. Wales shifted their training meetings from 1.30 pm until 4 pm because players were trying. The latest matches in Qatar will kick off at 10 pm local time when it will be cooler, although some of the previous matches will be played in scorching 1 pm heat.
Qatar also faces severe allegations of abuse of migrant workers many of whom are thought to have died in the heat who built the Football World Cup stadiums and infrastructure to cope with more than one million followers descending on a country with a regular people of just 300,000. Officially, Doha tells just three deaths are directly attributable to the building project. But human rights groups say that figure is likely in the hundreds, and in the thousands.
Workers from some of the world's most deprived countries told being paid just pence per day for their work, while Qatar has also been alleged of using North Korean hard worker labour for some of the projects. Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s former boss who was forced to resign shortly after the Qatar Football World Cup was announced amid a bribery scandal, has even admitted the tournament was a mistake. He highlighted a single issue the size of the host nation stating the country was simply not big enough to manage the event that is the world's premier sporting tournament. Worldwide Tickets and Hospitality offers Football World Cup tickets for the Qatar Football World Cup at the best prices. Football fanatics and buy Football World Cup Tickets at exclusively discounted prices.
The Qatar headland, which juts out from the east shore of Saudi Arabia, is just 115 miles long just about the gap from London to Bristol. The drive from the east to the west coast takes less than an hour. The run up to the tournament Football World Cup has also been plagued with problems, often linked to the conservative feelings of the country's Muslim rulers. Earlier this month, it was told a Qatar Football World Cup ambassador told German tv broadcaster ZDF that same gender attraction is the harm to the mind. In an interview filmed in Doha, former Qatari international Khalid Salman focus on the issue of homosexuality, which is illegal in the country.
Some football players have raised fears over the rights of fans traveling to the event, particularly LGBT+ individuals and women, whom rights groups tell Qatari laws to discriminate against. The country anticipated more than one million visitors for the World Cup. They must accept our rules here,' Salman said, in an excerpt of the interview. Same gender attraction is haram. Do you know what haram forbidden means? he spoke.
When asked why it was haram, Salman told: I am not a strict Muslim but why is it haram? Because it is hurt in the mind. An additional official then instantly stopped the interview. Qatar's Football World Cup organizers, when emailed by Reuters, declined to comment. World football's ruling body FIFA did not directly respond to a call for comment. Organizers have frequently told everyone is welcome in Qatar throughout the Football World Cup.
Qatar is the first Middle Eastern country to host the Football World Cup, although the small nation has come under intense stress in recent years for its treatment of foreign workers and restricted social laws. The country's human rights record has led to calls for squads and officials to boycott the November 20 December 18 tournament. Earlier this month FIFA came under scrutiny after Sky News got hold of a letter that the governing body had issued around the unions heading to Qatar.
Please, let's now concentrate on football Infantino and FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura wrote to the 32 countries due to compete. We know football does not live in a vacuum and we are so aware that there are many challenges and problems of a political nature all around the world. Only please do not allow football to be dragged into every political or political battle that is. England and Wales among a host of other nations plan to wear rainbow armbands at the tournament with the words One Love carved across them. Qatar Football World Cup chief director Nasser Al Khater last month told that gay supporters were welcome in the country but once again told of the nation's differing cultural norms.
“Everybody will feel safe in Qatar, Al Khater said on Sky News. We have always been told that everyone is welcome here. What we ask for is regard for our culture.”
