BERLIN (Reuters) - German football chiefs on Friday launched an attack on the 2022 Qatar World Cup, calling it a "burden on football" because of the likely shift in dates from a traditional summer tournament to a winter competition.
German football association (DFB) president Wolfgang Niersbach, re-elected until 2016 earlier on Friday, also said he would join forces with unions to ask FIFA about migrants' working conditions in the country following allegations of worker deaths on construction sites.
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