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Sportfreunde Stiller criticize the World Cup in Qatar
Singer and guitarist Peter Brugger (r) and bassist Rüdiger “Rüde” Linhof don’t think much of the World Cup in Qatar. photo
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“That’s perverse.” The football-loving boys from Sportfreunde Stiller clearly distance themselves from the World Cup in Qatar.
The band Sportfreunde Stiller is distancing itself from the World Cup in Qatar. The band denied that their new album “Everyone just an X” was deliberately released shortly before the start of the World Cup: “We can’t identify with this World Cup,” said songwriter and singer Peter Brugger of the German Press Agency. “It shows the brutalization of capital. That’s perverse.”
Will Brugger follow the World Cup soccer games on TV? “It’s a question of conscience. Of course I’m in the mood for football and the World Cup, but everything around it makes it difficult for me.” He would think it would be great if all spectators boycotted the World Cup. “That would inspire me. I would be there.”
Sportfreunde Stiller have a close connection to football: the band name is based on their former football coach and with the song “54, 74, 90, 2006” they contributed the fan anthem to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.