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BarcelonaAt the gates of the World Cup in Qatar, which will start on November 20, there are no end of examples that remind us that the most important sporting event of the year will be held in a dictatorship that, among other rights violations, discriminates against women and prosecutes the LGBTI group. This time the controversy revolves around the World Cup ambassador and former Qatari international footballer Khalid Salman, who described homosexuality as “mental damage” in an interview for a documentary on German public television ZDF.