Since being awarded the World Cup hosting rights in 2010, Qatar has faced years of criticism for its treatment of low-paid migrant workers, hundreds of whom died while helping the country prepare for the soccer tournament, as well as its anti-LGBTQ laws and criminalization of gay and lesbian sex. Monday's decision illuminates the political situation surrounding the first World Cup in the Middle East - even after Infantino asked all 32 national teams to keep politics off the soccer field. "Then you don't want the captain to start the match with a yellow card." "Our number one priority at the World Cup is to win the games," the Dutch soccer federation said in a separate statement.
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