The sequence from the TV broadcast of the Qatari TV company Alkass – which has gone viral on social media in the last 24 hours – has caused several people to react. The video shows several people, who are in a kind of studio, who are apparently angry with Germany after they crashed out of the World Cup despite a 4-2 victory against Costa Rica. On the screen, you can see the characters in the Qatari program holding their mouths, while waving their hands. – I think that’s bad style. At least from an organizing country, so they should be too good for that, says news expert Åge Hareide. SIGNAL: The German team chose to stand on the team photo with their hands over their mouths before the match against Japan. Photo: INA FASSBENDER / AFP Think they don’t care Many assume that this is a sour jab at Germany after the marks they had earlier in the championship. Before Germany’s World Cup opener against Japan, the team marked their disappointment with Fifa by keeping their mouths shut when the official team photo was taken. – It doesn’t look like they care that much about the signals Germany has sent then. It was not particularly to Qatar, but to Fifa. Then Qatar takes this and makes fun of it when Germany is out, Hareide explains and is upset by the picture from the TV studio. MARKED: The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, has lined up in the World Cup stands with the OneLove captain’s armband on her arm. Photo: KAI PFAFFENBACH / Reuters Criticism of Fifa came, among other things, in the wake of their refusal to allow the captains of European countries to wear the Onelove armband in the colors of the rainbow. news has sent an inquiry to Alkass, but has so far not received a reply. – Skadefryd news expert Kristoffer Løkberg thinks the people are enjoying Germany’s farewell to the World Cup, based on the criticism they have made against the country. The Onelove campaign stands up against discrimination and actively uses rainbow colors to show solidarity with the LGBT community. In Qatar, homosexuality is forbidden. – Good old-fashioned schadenfreude, says Løkberg. He is critical of accepting the German message in that way, instead of being aware of “what the Germans symbolize and what the important message is”. Mari Norbakk, postdoctoral fellow at Christian Michelsen’s institute, says the following about the incident in the TV studio. – I see it as a continuation of the ridicule of Germany, where some fans and others (and here in the studio) have made fun of the marking of the German team and said that they should concentrate on football, not politics, so perhaps they would have done the better, she says. For both Qatar and Germany, another World Cup with a sporting downturn. Host country Qatar lost all three of their matches in what was their first participation in the World Cup. Germany also crashed out of the group stage, something they also did in the World Cup four years ago. The German team only scored before the first match in the group stage (against Japan, which they lost 1-2). After the match against Spain a few days later, Germany’s midfield star Ilkay Gündogan said that “the politics are over” and that it was now about football. – We had some players who were angry at Fifa. They were disappointed and frustrated, so we had an internal discussion. In the end we decided to make a gesture towards Fifa. If you’re going to do something, do it as a team, Gündogan said according to The Athletic.
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