This is a matchday thread. Given that many in our community are following the World Cup and wish to discuss it on reddit, the r/switzerland mod team has decided to run these megathreads.

We are aware that many in our community will be boycotting or trying to boycott the World Cup, and there are good reasons to do so. [Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/) calls it the “World Cup of Shame”. Those who built the stadium lived in appalling conditions, being straightforwardly exploited to build the stadiums for the Cup.
Even the most corrupt Valaisan (that is an achievement), Sepp Blatter, now says it was a mistake to give the World Cup to Qatar.

The human rights issues are not limited to foreign workers. Qatar has an abysmal record on Women’s, LGBTQIA and democratic-liberal rights.

In the end, the mod team is not willing nor mandated to limit what is discussed on r/switzerland. For this reason, we are offering this megathread to bundle discussions around the World Cup.

May the Power Cube deliver victories, and may this World Cup lead to improving the human rights situation.

Please limit discussions of the World Cup to this thread as much as possible.

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  8. Congratulations!! This was such a tense match to watch and I’m so glad the team pulled through. I wonder what the argument at the end was about?!

  9. Hello, Serbian here, congratulations on the win and advancing in the world cup. I honestly have a question for anyones whos watched the entire game. Do you guys notice any bias in the decisions the referee has made? For example in terms of when he decided to call fouls, give yellow cards, give control off the ball etc… thanks for your answer

  10. I am all for calling out quatar and what they did and do is not right, but citing amnesty international as a source makes me take the whole post less serious, given how egregious their ‘reporting’ was on switzerland, the last time i read it. (albeit i dont remembre out the top of my head what one sided stuff they wrote, but i remember being unhappy by their depiction of events)

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