Impressive rhetoric and limited reform did not change the game for vulnerable and exploited migrant workers<\/p>
A year ago, Lionel Messi and what seemed to be the entire population of Argentina were celebrating<\/a> victory after perhaps the most dramatic World Cup final ever played. In a closing tournament press conference, the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, described Qatar 2022 as the best World Cup in history. The accounts showed that world football\u2019s governing body had pocketed a record<\/a> $7.5bn worth of revenue.<\/p> Then, as Christmas approached, the sporting and media caravans moved on. But many migrant workers, whose labour had enabled this sporting spectacle to take place, did not. By March this year, a coalition of eight union federations had issued<\/a> an angry statement noting deteriorating working conditions, as the spotlight of global attention abruptly switched off.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n