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Gay News: Fifa President Sepp Blatter has said that gay football fans shouldn't have sex during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
By: Nigel Robinson
Qatar will host World Cup in 2022
Qatar will host World Cup in 2022
Fifa president: don't have gay sex during World Cup
14 December 2010
Blatter made the comments during a press conference in Johannesburg.
Qatar, which will controversially host the World Cup in 2022, forbids homosexual acts, which are punishable by up to five years in prison.
Referring to gay football fans, Blatter joked that they should “refrain from any sexual activities”.
He went on to say that he was sure that there would be no anti-gay problems in Qatar in 2022.
“You see in the Middle East the opening of this culture – it’s another culture because it’s another religion – but in football we have no boundaries,” he said.
“We open everything to everybody and I think there shall not be any discrimination against any human beings be it on this side or that side, be it left, right, or whatever.
“If [gay football fans} want to watch a match somewhere in Qatar 2022, I’m sure they will be admitted to such matches.”
