The First Protest Team Before the World Cup: Australia May Face FIFA's Punishment.

The FIFA World Cup 2022 will come next month. Qatar, the host, is making every effort to prepare for the match, and has recently invited a number of teams for warm-up matches. In the recent match, Qatar defeated Honduras 1-0 and won 2 consecutive victories in the warm-up matches, showing a good state.

However, just hours before Qatar's match against Honduras, the Qatar World Cup was subject to an official protest by Football Australia, largely condemning Qatar's human rights abuses, while saying that Qatar's exploitation of workers during stadium construction "should not be ignored". In this case, Australia national football team may face FIFA's punishment.

Previously, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and other teams wore T-shirts with the words "human rights" during the World Cup preliminaries to express their protest against the Qatar World Cup Committee's disrespect for human rights and ecological damage. But Australia is now an official protest, and it is also the first team to protest the World Cup.

According to the British media "Guardian", during the construction of the World Cup football stadium in Qatar, more than 6,500 migrant workers from South Asian countries have died in Qatar so far. In addition, Qatar has been questioned since it won the right to host the World Cup, including rumors of bribery, the environment damage, and a series of climate issues.



The Australia national football team was originally in the Oceania Football Federation. It joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006 and competed for World Cup places by participating in the Asian preliminaries. Before that, it eliminated the Peru national football team through the intercontinental play-offs. The team has advanced to the World Cup finals for the sixth time in team history.

Now that Football Australia and Australia national football team are officially protesting against the Qatar World Cup, they do not rule out the possibility of a sudden abstention. At the same time, FIFA will also see this official statement, and it is estimated that the punishment is on the way.