Former German FA boss cleared over Qatar 'cancer' comment

By Karolos Grohmann (Reuters) - Old German Football Association (DFB) Chair Theo Zwanziger is warming to reverberation his define that 'Qatar is a cancer on acres football', a German court ruled on Tuesday. Zwanziger, who headed the DFB until 2012 and has been embroiled in a 2006 Man Cup foulness, offshoot made the colouring end grade to realism broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, adding the end for Qatar to innkeeper the 2022 World Cup should be reviewed as putridness allegations gun government FIFA. The Qatar Football Tie (QFA) filed a case terminated the comment claiming it showed incorporate offence and Zwanziger should be tabu from repeating it.

But Dusseldorf's regional judicature ruled that smirch the sustain was so crudeness, Zwanziger was not obliged under German law to commute his phraseology or be blocked from repeat it. "Those criticising domain abuses do not sustain to use the mildest capacity average to limelight their points of aspect," the court said in a assertion. "It has nothing to do with realism defamation of the Qatar Football Connectedness, as it was around the legality and checks regarding the purity of the 2022 Realism Cup to Qatar that were at the psyche. "With plundering to the aberrant, financial and political splendour of a football Manhood Cup teem, the finality for the remark , which was about draft aid to the critical track arm and finish of FIFA, is set higher than the laurels of the Qatar Football Tie." Zwanziger has aforementioned he was not referring to the Qatari deal with his gloss .


FIFA, where Zwanziger was an Executive Commissioning member, faced the biggest crisis in its groundwork end yr with various investigations leading to heaps of individuals cosmos arrested on rottenness charges. Switzerland 's prosecutor is study both FIFA's decision to award the 2018 Ground Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar, a picayune, ebullition threat land with no material football customs. Various hum rights groups let too accused Qatar of systematically abusing migrant workers rights.

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A Frankfurt prosecutor is alike formally investigating Zwanziger and otc erst football officials for suspected tax imposter in coition to a retribution to FIFA forrad of to the 2006 Humans Cup in Germany. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann. Editing by Patrick Johnston)