The former France international has called for respect for sporting competition but is “not sure” about going to Qatar just yet.
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Former French footballer Zinedine Zidane called on Monday October 24 to “leave controversy aside”, about the controversies surrounding the organization of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The former captain of the Blues, world champion in 1998, does not share the calls for a boycott and preferred to wish “a very good competition for the France team” from the Grévin museum, in Paris where he had come to inaugurate a new statue in his effigy.
Responding to the press on these controversies, Zinédine Zidane felt that it was necessary “leave room for the game and the World Cup for all fans who want to see just football”so that these “have a good time”. “In any case, what we are going to say about anything, it will never be right, never true and timely”, he added, in the presence of his parents, his wife and his children. But when asked about his presence in the stands of the World Cup next November, the former number 10 preferred to kick into touch. “I don’t know yet if I will go to Qatar”he simply replied.