Legendary Brian Laudrup has been fired from his expert job at Danish TV2.
The reason: The former player announced a visit to Dubai, which wants tourists to choose the city as a base for the World Cup in neighboring Qatar.
– I support football more than anything else, Laudrup replies to the Danish newspaper BT.
Brian Laudrup, Denmark’s 1998 World Cup champion, is in a bad mood. In a commercial for Visit Dubai, he was seen talking warmly about Dubai, located in the United Arab Emirates, ahead of the World Cup in the neighboring country. Qatar This fall. Like Qatar, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates have been criticized for the lack of human rights.
Now Laudrup is being pushed out of his stint as an expert commentator on TV2 and also from his podcast in Danish newspaper Politiken, according to Ekstrabladet.
“Like most people in this part of the world, I also believe of course that we humans must treat each other properly – there is no doubt about it. Finally, I would like to say that I think I support football more than anything else,” Laudrup wrote, Among other things, in a written response to BT.
“stop cooperation”
Laudrup also points to the fact that 14 million tourists visit Dubai every year, of whom 65,000 are Danes.
Participating in an advertisement for the WC Championship doesn’t work if you want to comment on the event, which Laudrup was supposed to do, according to TV2 sports director Frederic Lawson.
– Together with Brian Laudrup, we have agreed to stop the collaboration because it is incompatible with the campaign he is currently involved in, Lauesen tells TV2.