Football Australia has shut down any questions regarding Saudi Arabia’s potential sponsorship deal for the Women’s World Cup as Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson revealed his squad for the upcoming Cup of Nations. 7NEWS
Football Australia has shut down any questions regarding Saudi Arabia’s potential sponsorship deal for the Women’s World Cup as Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson revealed his squad for the upcoming Cup of Nations.
“Football Australia and New Zealand Football have jointly written to FIFA to urgently clarify the situation.”Getty Images “It is worth remembering that, as recently as 2018, women and girls in Saudi Arabia were not allowed to play sport in schools – or even to watch sports in stadiums. “Acceptance of Saudi sponsorship without acknowledgement of the accompanying human rights abuses is typical of FIFA and global sport right now and disgraceful in the extreme,” Foster told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
“It’s particularly galling that a nation that is listed on the global gender equality index at 127 out of 153 countries, has a legal system that entrenches gender discrimination against women and that issued a 34-year prison sentence to Salma Al-Shehab simply for tweets and retweets on human rights and political issues in Saudi Arabia now sponsors a women’s sport tournament in a country proud of its push for equality across all sport.
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