Naturalization policy: 12 countries play on behalf of Qatar team in World Cup

Mahmoud Mohammadi

The Hamdeen regime, as usual, took the non-moderate back roads as a way to achieve the alleged glory of its country, the latest of which was hosting the 2022 World Cup.

Since the announcement of Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup, the Gulf emirate has been looking for ways to strengthen its team with many strong players in order to compete for continental championships and prepare to go far in a tournament that is the first participation in the history of Qatar in the World Cup.

For this purpose, officials of the Qatar Football Federation (QFA) followed the “naturalization  policy” of a large number of players, namely, granting Qatar nationality to players from outside the country to have the Qatari football opportunity to play internationally.

Political and sports corruption

The Qatari team includes 15 players out of 27 Qatari nationals, from 12 different countries among Africa, Asia and Europe.

The Qatari corruption of Al-Hamdeen is not limited to economic policies, support of terrorist organizations, nor has it stopped naturalizing players from other countries to save the Qatari football team, but it has also touched on the sport. While the Qatari regime is pushing the militias to buy international clubs, it requests financial support for Qatari football clubs.

Not long ago, the Amiri Diwan asked the Qatar Stars League and the Ministries of Culture and Finance to allocate funds for local clubs and players to buy foreign players for foreign clubs. However, the big scandal was that part of the money went to European advertising and promotion companies to promote the Qatari regime.

Continuing corruption

The scandals of the Qatari regime did not stop. The month of May saw the return of corruption cases back to the forefront after French judicial sources and sources close to the 2019 World Cup organized a formal complaint against the head of the country’s sports group.

International news agencies have reported that French authorities accuse the president of the BN group of active corruption, while accusing the former president of the International Federation of Athletics Federations of corruption.

The details of the case were announced by the French authorities at the end of May 2019, when Oryx Qatar Sports Invest Mint, owned by Nasser Al Khulaifi and his brother Khaled, provided $3.5 million in the fall of 2011 for a sports marketing company run by Masata Diak, son of the former head of the international federation.

The funds were first paid on October 13, 2011 while the second was paid on November 7, 2011, just four days before the London tournament. However, London managed to win the tournament from Doha.