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A report a few days ago made us think again.
In Qatar, the host country of the 2022 World Cup, more than 6500 workers from five Asian countries have died in the past ten years, according to research by the British Guardian.
These are workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The figures have been compiled from government sources.
The actual number of migrants who died during this period is significantly higher, as workers from other countries also come to the emirate, the paper writes.
According to the human rights organization Amnesty International, the situation of foreign workers in Qatar has recently improved, but the country is only inadequately implementing its reforms.
In addition, local employers are often not held accountable for violations.
As a result, according to Amnesty, thousands of workers remain at the mercy of unscrupulous employers whose abuses have gone unpunished.
Several Norwegian first division clubs are now calling on BVB star Erling Haaland and his national team to boycott the World Cup.
For several years the world federation Fifa and Qatar have been criticized for the questionable World Cup awards and the unworthy conditions for workers from abroad, wrote the elite series association Tromso IL in a statement on Friday.
Criticism and the attempted dialogue had led to nothing, the "Guardian" report on thousands of workers who had died was now completely devastating.
The number of supporters is growing in Norway
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"We feel that it is time to go a step further: boycott," wrote the club.
Money is part of football and will always be part of the sport.
Nevertheless, this should not mean that corruption, life-threatening working conditions and looking the other way would be accepted.
Tromsö IL therefore calls on the Norwegian football association NFF to boycott the World Cup.
"We believe we should say no to a trip to Qatar if we qualify."
Tromsö's league rivals Strömsgodset and Viking now support the claim, as the NTB news agency reported.
Other clubs are also considering putting themselves behind it.
Norway will play against Gibraltar, Latvia, Montenegro, Holland and Turkey in Group G qualifying for the World Cup starting at the end of March.
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With a view to the tens of thousands of dead, Qatar's government press office said on request that more than 1.4 million people from the countries mentioned lived in the emirate.
They included students, the elderly, and workers in various industries.
Millions more have lived in Qatar in the past ten years and have returned home.
A "small percentage" is different from these millions of people, it continues.
The death rate is in a range that can be expected for this size and this demographic composition.
The World Cup tournament was awarded to the wealthy emirate in 2010.
The country is repeatedly criticized internationally for the exploitation of guest workers.
Qatar's government, on the other hand, says that reforms in recent years have significantly improved the situation of workers.
Qatar plays in European World Cup qualifiers
Host Qatar will take part in the European qualification for the 2022 World Cup.
The European Football Union (UEFA) officially invited the emirate to play in qualifying group A.
Source: SID