Video of the official documents and the testimonies of former senior FIFA officials, united by “Le Monde”, strengthen doubts about the Qatari promises of a world “carbon and ecological world”.
by Anna Moreau, Rémi Dupré and Solène Bureau (Motion-design)
“They make stadiums like Lego,” said, creaking, former president of FIFA Sepp Blatter. “I wanted to believe it. I made a nice bullshit,” said documentary maker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who had publicly supported Qatar’s candidacy for the organization of the 2022 Football World Cup.
What are the Qatari promises to organize the first world “completely neutral carbon”? From the construction of stages to supporters’ travel, technological solutions and calculation methods presented by Qatar question.
Official documents show that the country of the Gulf plans, for example, to count only 58 of the 22,000 days of the life of the stadiums it builds, less than 0.3 % of the total.
Thanks to official documents and interviews with former senior football leaders, Le Monde plunges behind the scenes of one of the most controversial sporting events in history.