While a good chunk of the world goes mad for soccer only teams from Europe and South America have been champions. England has only won it once on home turf. I expect this to continue for some time to come in the future.
The last world cup was in Russia, I don’t recall too many articles about Putin executing political opponents and if you watched the World Cup, you were supporting Putin’s alleged crimes ... this is the same, lots of people will watch the soccer games and never give a second thought to what sort of place Qatar is etc. The LGBT-whatever community are the main source of this last minute campaign against Qatar because all their demands have not been met. Right there is a good reason to say go Qatar. Tempest in a teapot.