FIFA confirms Saudi Arabia as 2034 World Cup host: A sportswashing success story? | DW News

[@markusmencke8059]

FIFA should be abolished. Sell-Outs.

[@GHOST-hd4wm]

Human rights is the biggest facade in history. Are you blind to the reality that we live in?

[@jbudwal]

Then do not watch it and close your eyes.

[@noname-ot7vd]

Another shame by FIFA. this organization should be boycotted

[@I_Am_A_Gay_Lithuanian_Man]

Why boycott FIFA? I am a gay Lithuanian man and I love Saudi Arabia.

[@serbianwarcrimes]

@@I_Am_A_Gay_Lithuanian_Man They claim to care about democracy and minority rights but continuously send international tournaments to fundamentally unfit countries

[@heshamabualkhair7960]

No one care. Football is a global sport. Have you seen the stadiums? Bet your country can't build only one. It will take you 20 years to do the environmental impact to build one stadium 😅

[@serbianwarcrimes]

@@heshamabualkhair7960 And how many people will die during construction? How often will that stadium be used? Great, another advertising event besmirching a beautiful game for the entertainment of a few rich kids.

[@PlaceHolder-br9pz]

@@I_Am_A_Gay_Lithuanian_Man Because they give theocratic monarchies utilizing slave labor a marketing platform that is contradictory to FIFA's core "values", they claim to care about.

[@abirhossen9063]

Where were you people when the 2026 world cup host was being announced.

[@AaaBbb-do1sw]

Congratulations to the great Saudi Arabia

[@browneyesjesus]

No alcohol at the stadium ?

[@samlatooni]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@giratinaghost4069]

No you can buy alcohol

[@noondanish-bs4sc]

​@@giratinaghost4069 noo

[@MrTriangle1954]

Okay, you don’t need alcohol to enjoy the football match, and if you’re going to a country with different rules than your country, you just should respect and follow the other countries rules

[@chaimkobylinski1988]

Football not soccer.... Who in Germany or in England calls football/fussball - soccer...

[@ArchDudeify]

Yeah it's FIFA not FISA

[@borisnegrarosa9113]

Gradual Americanization of European culture.

[@facitenonvictimarum]

🏈 ← Football ⚽ ← Soccer

[@serbianwarcrimes]

@@facitenonvictimarum Funnily enough, that's only the case in the US. Everywhere else on the planet it's called hand egg.

[@facitenonvictimarum]

Hitting a ball with your head causes brain damage, which explains why the "rest of the world" is so F-ed up.

[@nazimthecool4173]

Blah blah ….Let the jealousy begin

[@pointblank0020]

Fifa also confirmed Marocco, Spain, Portugal as the 2030 host but I guess that doesn't deserve being in the news

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Yeah... when 3 massive football nations get the WC it isn't news, in contrast to a theocratic monarchy that regularly executes people... Not really all too surprising.

[@mda990]

Great Andulusia 2030💚❤️

[@moeel6304]

Cryyy Cryyyyyy Cryyyyyyyyyy weeeeeh weeeeh weeeehheheh

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Hit me up when you make it out of groups.

[@nenadmitrovic3469]

Why is USA hosting better?

[@serbianwarcrimes]

They don't chop up journalists for criticizing the president.

[@Flickvids100]

It has become that. What's next? A World Cup in is..aels new stadium in Gaza? SHAME.

[@Art_Gecko]

The history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia begins properly on September 23, 1932, when by royal decree the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd with its dependencies, administered since 1927 as two separate units, was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1932.

[@horusksa1983]

We are enjoying your tears in our coffee this morning 😂

[@serbianwarcrimes]

We'll be enjoying your team for breakfast. Hit me up when you've developed any actually competitive teams that could survive without billions in funding.

[@Mohe5774]

Cry about it

[@jeksixten5751]

So Germans calls it Soccer when they're speaking in English??😅

[@rmcf1947]

Those are American

[@yossarincatch6051]

Western shrill pieces who said here was no ge nocide in Gaza are concerned of workers in arable land world. Poor angels

[@TweakyGoblin]

Wow, just like that...??!!

[@arshadhrahman]

I thought DW is a German channel. Why do they call football "soccer". Getting irritated when hearing that word. Acceptable if it's CNN.

[@peabase]

But CNN on the whole is not acceptable. I have to take horse tranquilizers to slow down to their pace of reporting.

[@dfhhedsdcgh]

사우디아라비아에 월드컵경기장 15개 짓는게 가능하다고 보나요????? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 독일분들???

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Possible? yes But a complete and utter waste of money because they'll never be used again after the WC.

[@D_isco_D_ancer]

Soccer? Aint this a German channel?

[@ClassyRice]

Everyone woke up on this worldcup news where were u before this arent the workers in a mess for too long now and nth os ever done

[@BiWesCrew]

Pay your workers a decent wage, Allah will watch with eyes of a Falcon.

[@no_one_caress]

Without oil rich countries and money, football is nothing…….

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Football has been around long before oil rich countries and will be around a long time after. Germany for instance has some of the best players, best and most historic teams, and is doing fine without some sheikh buying out the teams for his personal vanity projects. 50+1 saved them from the fate of English football.

[@no_one_caress]

@ players from Africa Money from Arabia

[@serbianwarcrimes]

@@no_one_caress Maybe in English clubs, in German clubs, they are ACTUAL clubs, Vereine in German, membership associations, 50+1 means that 50% +1 of voting rights MUST remain with the members of the club. Ensuring that the Club continues to act in the interest of its members and not some investors coming in on a shopping spree. Enjoy your sanitized, hypercommercialized, over priced ad space, while I get my tickets to the stadium for 20€, can vote on who's in the leadership of my hometown club and will know for sure that it's never moved half way across the country to please some Sheikh who barely knows the history of my club.

[@benjaminamankwaah4893]

Didn’t you lot also pay for the 2006 World Cup?

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Yeah, and that's why plenty of German football fans hate the DFB, UEFA and FIFA. Thank you for calling out billionaires destroying a beautiful sport.

[@PlaceHolder-br9pz]

Funnily enough Germany doesn't dismember Journalists for being critical of the government. Or behead people. Or whip them for being assaulted. Or tortures people to get confessions. Or tolerates de facto slave labor... But wouldn't want to mention all these well documented and extensively known situations.... otherwise your whinging wouldn't work as well.

[@Chronoir3]

$$$ makes the world spin. Also drink a beer every time they say *Uhhhh/m*

[@ghhghh8554]

good news , Saudi is on the way up.

[@H-nv6hx]

Thanks, Russell Lucas for being fair , I am so happy my beautiful Saudi is thriving and shining , and to all of the haters I hope you have a good day peace ✌️ ❤

[@piccalillies]

stupid

[@anam.caballerowilson9421]

Well done 🇵🇸Palestines 😅

[@313SoulsOfBadr]

The hate is too much 😂 but ☪️ will prevail

[@KonstantinRuhpriya]

I think it's a good news. Saudi Arabia is usually all about religious, and now it shows that being religious and having fun (with soccer) is possible. Having fun here means booze, sport betting, and girls, of course

[@burns281981]

Still got slave labour though right?

[@Arwa_Zaid11]

@@burns281981wdym?u mean Saudi well no actually I'm Saudi and I gotta say the people are so kind there

[@burns281981]

@@Arwa_Zaid11 see how you didn't bother answering my question yet you still responded to me. What is that all about?

[@ImranMuhammad-z9l]

People are thief here

[@franciscouderq1100]

More exploited workers some even dying on the job.

[@horusksa1983]

More died searching for the WMDs in Iraq

[@MP-kk4pk]

Saudi arabia is the best 🥰🥰🥰🥰😍🤩

[@PlaceHolder-br9pz]

Unless you're a journalist and you enjoy being in one piece.

[@shawngrinter2747]

I wonder how many will die building their stadia…..

[@BHK-cp3mc]

No one

[@mis7614]

I wonder how many people died in European stadiums?

[@Aokami11]

Bro europe in decline you should worry about that first 😂

[@oscare.quiros6349]

Yet another FIFA's failure. Sad times for football, again.

[@giratinaghost4069]

Cry

[@serbianwarcrimes]

@@giratinaghost4069 Nah, we'll just go to watch anyone of our dozens of historic clubs playing at the highest levels of the game, instead of a sterile marketing event in a desert.

[@oscare.quiros6349]

@@giratinaghost4069 Yes, we have been crying for a few years now. Football is not what it used to be, before big money bought it.

[@anam.caballerowilson9421]

Gosh! Did you know Islam the founder of Mathematics and Everything I😅 sports only of them

[@ronaldwilson9525]

Bribery works. Congratulations.

[@fahmad7194]

Throw the money (petro dollars) and watch the circus

[@جلوي-ص7ص]

Como mitad saudí y española, considero que ese día fue el más bonito de mi vida. España 2030 Arabia Saudí 2034😢

[@s.L.a11]

L

[@francis_idoko]

It is a great news for me. I welcome the idea of Saudi Arabia hosting the world cup. Why not?

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Forced labor, total lack of civil rights, lack of women's rights, complete waste of stadia that will never be used again, no grassroots football infrastructure, being a theocratic monarchy that chopped up journalists for criticizing MBS, it being a sterile marketing event... There's plenty of reasons.

[@kingabdoul2254]

Nonsense. War criminals

[@Stephen_Baker]

Your headline is disingenuous, like many societies Saudi Arabia is changing, so let them get on with it and report the sport.

[@vladnickul]

they are changing?

[@PlaceHolder-br9pz]

So they'll stop murdering journalists that criticize MBS?

[@Dstinct]

Yeah no its not. Its putting out the appearance of change while actually regressing.

[@Stephen_Baker]

@dwnews - pls understand: yr headline explains nothing except popularism. Pls hold @fifa to account but understand & explain to us, the audience, why they are doing this @bbcnews @bbcglobal @bbc

[@PlaceHolder-br9pz]

Did they finally stop chopping up journalists?

[@borisnegrarosa9113]

Football + Wahhabism

[@maryamislam2461]

I prefer the latter

[@user-bn6hy3qx1p]

Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-qx1gj4uk2o]

corrupt

[@NoHairMan]

Not gonna watch then.

[@serbianwarcrimes]

Can't wait for all the autocracy apologists to start claiming it was the best WC ever.

[@changedNameSorry]

Who knows if there is a Saudi Arabia in ten years to host the World Cup anyhow, or if it still exists it will be in the shape to hoist them.

[@GSSurry]

Big brown envelopes or should I say suitcases have changed hands prior to the announcement Saudi Arabia won.

[@spaceremains]

Shameful.

[@vladnickul]

Will they beat qatar in worker deaths?