A national Danish team put in a request to wear a practice jersey with “human rights for all” written on it but was declined by FIFA.

    FIFA stated that the uniforms brought forth a political message that is prohibited during the World Cup, according to Front Office Sports. With the unsatisfactory result, Jakob Jensen, the chief executive of the Danish Football Association, responded with his views on Twitter.

   According to Front Office Sports, “We believe the message ‘human rights for all’ is universal and not a political call, but something everyone can support,” Jenson said. 

   This setback did not hinder the Danish team. They put together a kit that makes the FIFA logo barely visible to show their disappointment in the organization according to CNN. The different uniforms consist of red, white and black to symbolize their mourning for the deaths that occurred in the construction of the stadium.

   The stadium was built by migrant workers in the dangerous heat of the Persian Gulf in grueling labor conditions. Workers constructed the stadium through long hours of exertion which may have resulted in many deaths linked back to the stadium. According to The New York Times, the death toll of work-related deaths is only 37 people with three as workplace accidents but human rights organization projects it to be in the thousands. So far, no one has compiled an exact number of deaths that were connected to the stadium. The deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch, Michael Page, comments on this tribulation.

      According to The New York Times, “This event was entirely built on the backs of migrant workers, on a completely unequal balance of power,” Page said. “All these abuses have been entirely predictable.”

    Over the past 12 years, more than 2,100 Nepali workers have died and 699 deaths were linked to cardiac arrest or heart attack according to the New York Times. With the excruciating heat of the Persian Gulf, the risk of a heart attack increases. In extreme heat a person’s blood pressure drops which causes the heart to beat rapidly. The hurried heart rate puts stress on someone’s body and that can result in a heart attack. Conclusively, this evidence can be connected to the thousands of deaths related to the stadium workers.

   FIFA faces a blow from the public with the decision to hold The World Cup in Qatar. Along with the team’s show of support for the migrant workers; Amnesty International requested $440 million to compensate the migrant workers’ families through a co-signed letter with other human rights organizations to Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, according to CNN.