Zinédine Zidane does not intend to call for a boycott of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

"We must leave the controversy aside and leave room for the game and the World Cup," he said on Monday, while the organization of the competition is at the heart of many controversies.

“I wish a very good competition to the French team.

I don't know yet if I will go to Qatar, ”said the icon of the round ball, at the Grévin museum, in Paris, where he came to inaugurate a new wax statue in his effigy.

“Anyway, what we are going to say about anything, it will never be right, never true and timely,” he added.

Since the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar in December 2010, the competition, which will begin on November 20, has sparked controversy on subjects such as respect for human rights and the protection of the environment.

The working conditions of the foreign workers who built the infrastructure and the running of the competition in eight stadiums, seven of which were built for the tournament, are regularly denounced.

A wax statue with a bald spot

At the Grévin museum, the footballer, star of the World Cup in 1998, was surrounded by his parents, his wife and his children.

“It's a privilege to be at the Grévin museum and even more so to have been requested by visitors.

I come back with less hair.

I'm glad to be back.

I'm a reserved person off the pitch.

It touches me all the more to be here with all my family”.

Only before him, General de Gaulle, Elizabeth II, Julien Clerc, Pierre Richard and Bernard Pivot were entitled to their wax doubles at several periods of their lives.

Represented for the first time in the official outfit of the France team with his hair, the new Zidane returns in a sober coach's city suit... with a bald spot.

Considered one of the greatest players and coaches in the history of football, Zinédine Zidane inaugurated his wax double in 1999 at the same time as that of Fabien Barthez.

The statue had been put away for a few years, the Grévin museum not considering it sufficiently successful.

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