Unvaccinated Footballers Could Be Barred from Next World Cup

Qatar is believed to be pushing for unvaccinated footballers to be barred from playing in next year’s World Cup, with fans also having to show proof of full vaccination to attend matches. MailOnline has the story.

It is known that professional players’ views on taking the vaccine are mixed and there are some concerns Qatar’s stance could rob the tournament of its stars – something all parties want to avoid.

Qatar, who have already administered more than 4.6 million vaccines so far, roughly 82% of their population, are in discussions with FIFA and medical authorities in efforts to reach an amicable solution.

The Athletic claim a number of options are being considered, including uninoculated players having to report negative tests every three days. …

A number of Premier League clubs are known to have players still resisting the Covid vaccine, including Arsenal and Switzerland star Granit Xhaka.

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted last month “not all of the players have been double-jabbed”, adding: “I have encouraged them to take the vaccination but you cannot force anyone to do that.” …

Newcastle manager Steve Bruce has admitted that “a lot” of his players have not been vaccinated…

Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it. …

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Tee Ell
4 years ago

Footballers should boycott Qatar, vaccinated or not, because they use slaves to build the infrastructure used for the world cup.

It’s like a distilled example of everything that is wrong with the world.

No doubt there will be plenty who don’t boycott, and they’ll rock up and dutifully take the knee at kickoff, blissfully unaware of the irony.

PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

The slave camps around Doha provide more than just stadium workers.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

Footballers should boycott Qatar”

But – you know it ain’t going to happen. Cash trumps ethics.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

It would be so sad to be banned from Freedom Loving, Football Loving Qatar. I’d love to see the overrated Steling take the knee for all the oppressed people of Qatar,

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Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

F1 should also stop holding it’s event in the country too.

rtaylor
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

Can Lewis Hamilton not highlight the plight of the slaves in Qatar or do Indian Lives not Matter?

Al T
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

Yup, blithely ‘take the knee’ in opposition to all forms of discrimination. In a 21st Century slave state where gay people nominally face the death penalty, stoning and flogging are still on the statute book and female emancipation is barely out of the dark ages.

Where, on average 12 migrant workers have died every week since 2010 building the infrastructure for the World Cup.

Should never have been awarded the tournament.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

“Fly the Flag!”

Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited is in turn owned by FGP Topco Limited, a consortium owned and led by the infrastructure specialist Ferrovial S.A. (25.00%), Qatar Investment Authority (20.00%), Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) (12.62%), GIC (11.20%), Alinda Capital Partners of the United States (11.18%), China Investment Corporation (10.00%) and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) (10.00%).

HaylingDave
4 years ago

Well, as an Arsenal supporter (for my many sins), I’ve never been a big fan of Granit Xhaka, but he’s just stratospherically shot up in my estimations. Well done, son!

Julian
4 years ago

Ha ha, wheels coming off the wagon. Hopefully lots of footballers and fans will boycott. Stupid place to have a World Cup anyway.

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Oh come off it. Makes perfect sense to play professional football in 50 degree heat ..

iane
iane
4 years ago

Quite so: great place for collateral impacts of the ‘vaccines’ to become apparent!

Julian
4 years ago

Indeed, in a country with not much of a footballing history or culture.

Encierro
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Do you not know? It is about following the money, not the game.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

And it always has been, but there will surely/hopefully come a point when the fans who make the sport sustainable refuse to consume a product that has been bent out of all recognition from the state that made it appealing to start with. IMO football matches and tournaments need passionate fans in the stadium to generate atmosphere.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago

This is one World Cup I won’t be watching – in all conscience, I can’t ignore the treatment of those workers who built the stadiums.

NonCompliant
4 years ago

Jean Claude Van Tam is funny.

urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it”

Myths LMFAO

Hope there’s a player boycott.

SilentP
SilentP
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

He is one of the scummiest scumbags of all.

He presents this cuddly teddy bear persona and then spouts the most outrageous propaganda bollocks

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  SilentP

He’s an ugly ducker. A veritable sinner.

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Whose ‘myths’ – governments? No, probably not

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Don’t blow it, the bastard screamed at the public, as if it wasn’t the government’s choice to lock down.

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Corpses can play football?

Aleajactaest
4 years ago

Al Beeb still showing the genuflection to St Floyd of BLM on the footy show…..now some of the sheep are clapping them, but mostly they’re being booed.

Footy players know which side their bread is buttered and it ain’t on the death or serious injury side.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Every week, they insist on insulting the public with this.

Catee
4 years ago

Boycott the whole bloody thing.

PoshPanic
4 years ago

Not a rhetorical question…does anybody know of any professional players who’ve died, or lost a season to injury from Covid?

BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

The closest they have had in the Premier League is Karl Darlow at Newcastle, hospitalised for breathing difficulties, and Kai Havertz at Chelsea.

Meanwhile.
https://talksport.com/football/945746/bayern-munich-kingsley-coman-age-heart-surgery/

PoshPanic
4 years ago

Thanks, that’s as I suspected. I’ve only seen players and/or athletes in general, who’ve been out of matches/competitions, cause of Covid. I’m still not aware of any who have missed a season, or died as a result ( a few veterans aside )

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

I am aware of no athlete in America who has died of COVID in the past 19 months. This includes athletes from junior high through the professional ranks. So there are millions of athletes in this “study” with zero deaths so far. Only a tiny handful of athletes have been hospitalized.

But we can’t say this. Certainly, the press can’t report this factual data.

nickbowes
nickbowes
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Allegedly this young man died four days after taking the shot.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/tributes-pour-after-former-waterford-24787825

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

The newspapers reported it as a short illness and gave no details. He fell ill on Friday, two hours after his jab, died on Monday.

nickbowes
nickbowes
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

And my daughter`s super fit judo coach was in hospital recently with an awful bout of “covid” and was absolutely nothing do to at all with taking a second shot of experimental gene therapy !!

Oscarone
Oscarone
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

And the 27-year old, fully-vaccinated, superfit Australian Olympic swimmer Madi Wilson has been hospitalized with “covid” in Naples where she was competing in the International Swimming League. Ultra-fit Aussie Olympic gold medallist is hospitalised with Covid despite being FULLY vaccinated | Daily Mail Online

PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

This must a major talking point in every club, surely.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

So far the mortality “risk” to athletes from COVID is 0.0000 percent. This should be worth a blurb in all these stories about (the few) athletes who refuse to get vaccinated. Why do they need to get vaccinated when they face no mortality risk?

PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Exactly what I was thinking. In the case of those who’ve caught a nasty case of the ro, being taken into hospital for observation/treatment, is not the same as receiving an injury that could put you out for a season, or life.

Oscarone
Oscarone
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

No allegedly about it. Poor Roy Butler did indeed die 4 days after getting the V.

BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago

By the time this rolls around, if they are still mandating this, then they’ve won and the entire world will under miltary-medical dictatorship.

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Fine. Let’s have the unvaccinated World Cup instead.

PartyTime
4 years ago

I have no interest in football at all but that trophy looks a bit like a skull

Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago

Who would ever listen to van tam

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

ask the over 1600 dead, in England alone, if a myth killed them. Ask the hundreds who are blind or deaf if it was a myth.

martinbritnell83
martinbritnell83
4 years ago

“Urging them to ignore the myths.” What myths would they be? The fact that fit and healthy young people have developed Myocarditis. I’ve also noticed that a lot of amateur sports players have collapsed and died recently. More reports than ever before. It won’t say if they have been vaccinated, but you can bet your house that they have.

eastender53
4 years ago

For some reason the ‘reply’ link to the comments is not active.

I lived and worked in Qatar for three years. All the stories of slave labour are 100% true. The construction workers have their passports seized, are made to pay for ‘training courses’ out of their meagre wages, and operate a ‘one out, one in’ hot bed dormitory system. Hundreds have died. The whole award stank from the beginning and hasn’t got any better.

PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

That country is a ticking time bomb, millions of migrant “workers” and a few hundred thousand wealthy locals.

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago

I so hope they do this as the wheels will then start coming off big style and more and more people will see this for the absurd nonsense that it is.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago

Presumably any elite sportsman (or woman) with brains thinks very carefully about how to maintain their body correctly to achieve peak performance. Training regimes, diet, sleep etc are all intelligently managed, as their livelihood depends on it.

Allowing themselves to be injected with a novel substance with unknown consequences, potentially including disability and death, probably belongs in the category of career-limiting stupid decision-making.

They know they can lose their career from taking an unapproved cold medicine, so have experience of being very careful in health related issues.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Unlike carers they all have enough dough to sue for breach of human rights and lost earnings. No reason is needed to reject a vaccine.

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago

Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it

No problem. Quite possible to ignore the myths and still avoid the vaccine.

Encierro
4 years ago

Looks like a case all vaticinations are acceptable. No matter where they are made. Chinese, Russian, USA, India,Europe etc. It is often said that some are much more effective than others.That is why some countries do not allow visitors from certain countries because of the vaccine used.
Yet another for the something is not sitting right pile of facts.

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago

Newcastle United’s Karl Darlow has urged footballers to “go and get the jab” after he recovered from a serious bout of Covid-19. (Source: BBC)

So he recovered, good for him. What about all the people who got bad reactions to the vaccine and have not recovered. Funny how they never get a spot on the BBC.

SJR
SJR
4 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

I’ve just recovered from a bad bout of Covid19 and I’m not urging people to get the jab. Funnily enough my views don’t count though.

wendy
wendy
4 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

Some people will have a worse time with covid illness than others, I didn’t find my bout last year great fun, though I’ve had much worse viral illness in the past. It doesn’t mean everyone must take this vaccine. If I was that player I wouldn’t want the bbc to use me to coerce others into vaccination!

Annie
4 years ago

I hope these spoiled dollies finally grow a pair and resist the bullying.
If they can kick balls they can kick a..e.

realarthurdent
4 years ago

“Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it” “Myths” like these ones published by HM Government? “Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed 111,317 UK Yellow Cards from people who have received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. These reports include a total of 314,700 suspected reactions (i.e. a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 9 December 2020.Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed a total of 230,499 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. These reports include a total of 820,923 suspected reactions (a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 4 January 2021.Up to and including 1 September 2021, the MHRA received and analysed a total of 15,079 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna. These include a total 47,977 suspected reactions (a single report may contain more than one symptom). The first report was received on 7 April 2021.”…“The MHRA has received 524 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 1,064 reports for the COVID-19 Vaccine… Read more »

wendy
wendy
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Yes. I don’t know if there is a World Cup of women teams at the same time but there is currently investigation of why women’s menstrual cycles and flow are being affected by these vaccines.

I can see no reason if you are a young male or female athlete why you would wish to have one of these vaccines.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

I think the only MP to stand up in parliament and ask for no-fault compensation for COVID vaccine injuries has been Christopher Chope MP

https://www.chrischope.com/news/chris-chope-strong-and-significant-covid-19-vaccine-damage-bill-2nd-reading-debate

The comments from some other MPs during the debate weren’t that constructive. (Maybe they have pharma shares.)

wendy
wendy
4 years ago

Correct me if I am wrong but I think where things are up to with these covid vaccines is: the FDA don’t currently recommend boosters to younger people and one of the reasons they give is the risk of myocarditis from the vaccines is greater for males under 40 than the risk of having a covid infection it’s fully acknowledge now that these vaccines do not stop infections and so any benefit from taking them is a reduction in illness severity should the person get a covid infection there seems to be more or less acknowledgement that any protective effect these vaccines may offer wears off, maybe after 6 to 8 months, so any person, a footballer say, having a vaccine now would not have protection by the time of the World Cup. (Though Fauci in the Telegraph yesterday was insisting we will come to accept 3 shots will be needed to be fully vaccinated, he is continuing the myth of these being sterilising vaccines!!!). we know there are risk factors making a person more susceptible to severe illness from a covid infection and these are age, frailty, obesity, blood pressure, diabetes, other illnesses causing increased risks – majority of… Read more »

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

Can anyone tell me if I am missing something here because for the life of me I do not understand why Van Tam is pushing these people to take a vaccine they clearly do not need.”

It’s politics, power, ambition, vanity, greed, arrrogance, evil. Nothing would convince me that Van Tam, Whitty and Vallance don’t know that this is all nonsense. They are all highly qualified, but highly dishonest. Or they have gone stark raving bonkers.

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

“Full vaccination”?!!! When will people wake up and realise you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”! This is the point! To drive people into a deeper, darker, tighter black hole of control and coercion, to push more and more unwanted and unneeded medication on us, making billions and billions for them, and all their cronies, but creating a depleted and devitalised population. By next year they’ll be press-ganging the 5th (or more) booster shot onto people, together with your slave slab, green-to-go permission “passport” if they get away with it now! Anyone missing their boosters, slides straight down the snake to the bottom, as you’re now classed as unvaccinated as the rest of us! And there are people who STILL DON’T GET IT!

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

That’s why I’ve never had a supermarket loyalty card, it just stops the freedom, you feel committed….

Winston2
Winston2
4 years ago

This will never, ever happen. I have a friend who is an ex pro footballer and works at one of the Premier League clubs. At his club around 40-50 percent of the players are unvaxed, including many of the biggest names.

robwallser
robwallser
4 years ago

Exactly that ,it was a phoney bribe heavy affair from its conception and means nothing to real football fans .The memmory of Argentina 78 or Spain 82 could not be eclipsed by this corporate birthday party for rich princes

oblong
4 years ago

Pleased to know footballers refusing but I am boycotting premium league footy for now. Went to watch my local team Marine FC in FA cup qualifier. Terraces. Reminded me of the good old days without the bovver

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

One of the most poignant moments of last season, all those people watching Marine v Spurs from their gardens.

rtaylor
4 years ago

A number of Premier League clubs are known to have players still resisting the Covid vaccine.

Well, they are professional athletes with short careers, they don’t want die from micro- blood clots when they travel to European and International away games.

I’d have thought the deep state would leave them alone, like Pfizer, FDA and Moderna employees.