If watching football during the agonising matches of the German national team, fortunately limited to four appearances, made you want to vomit (because of the dispassionate performances, but above all because of the disgusting politicisation of a sports competition for left-wing ideological content), this unbearable double standard must make you very nauseous: The German Football Association is negotiating a deal worth millions with the state-owned airline of the country that threatens homosexuals with five years in prison and has them flogged.
Whether already at European Championship qualifying matches through the jersey posing of “La Mannschaft” for human rights by means of letters that read “Human Rights”, or in the tournament itself due to the unbearable, self-satisfied virtual signalling of team captain Manuel Neuer with his colourful armband and the penetrating, rehearsed on-camera pleas for “diversity” and “tolerance”, right down to the pitiful genuflection in memory of a random black US felon killed in a police operation: Hypocrisy, not football, seems to be the meaningful moment of this national team, which for the most is not related to “Germany” either mentally-ideally or interpersonally, let alone ethnically. Micky Beisenherz sarcastically puts it in a nutshell:
The fact that human rights count for as little in Qatar as they do in Russia or China, the countries of origin of the other two UEFA major sponsors at this European Championship, should have prompted a consistent German football association, which is serious about its players’ embarrassingly infantile gestures, to cancel its participation – or, alternatively, at least to remain silent. But if you want to gain ethical merit, you have to be measured against your own standards. And here the German Football Association is embarrassing itself to the best of its ability by negotiating a strategic partnership with Qatar Airways, as reported in the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Irrespective of the total moral bankruptcy that such a deal would mean for the mendacious soccer players and their association, the replacement of the German flagship airline Lufthansa by a future exclusive cooperation with the airline of an absolutist desert state would also mean a break with tradition; however, that is probably the least important thing – because nothing about this German national team has been “German” or close to its homeland for a long time. In the context of the arbitrariness, lack of identity and, above all, lack of character and backbone of the elites in politics, business and, unfortunately, sport, a cooperation with the Qatar airline fits like a glove.
https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2021/07/11/geplante-dfb-partnerschaft/