Football didn’t do enough to stop Qatar World Cup, Norway boss claims

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Norway boss Stale Solbakken has accused football of not doing enough to prevent Qatar hosting the World Cup finals. The first years after it was given to Qatar, I think the whole world was more or less asleep, including football people and also journalists.” Recommended Everything wrong with the Qatar World Cup Fifa president Gianni Infantino has urged participating nations to “let football take the stage”, but has also called for a ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine - a message Solbakken feels is mixed. “Also, all the faults that has been done so far and now coming close to the World Cup, it is a little bit the same that the leaders of Fifa in many ways comes up with some strange meanings, ‘Let’s play football, let’s not focus on the other things’, but at the same time trying to stop a war. “But I think at the same time, football’s political people have a great responsibility to make a stand that this kind of way of where certain World Cups should go, that you need to act in a certain way and you have to have equal rights for all human beings and that all people are treated well.”