[WORLD CUP 2026] Three years after the USA lost out to Qatar in the bid for the 2022 World Cup, the wisdom of the decision by the FIFA executive committee is stillbeing debated. U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, who headed the U.S. bid committee, says a rethink of how FIFA conducts its bidding process will […]
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Russia: FIFA Investigator is Persona Non Grata
Russia has said it will not allow Michael Garcia, FIFA’s chief investigator who is touring all countries involved in the most recent World Cup bidding process, into itsborder because he is on a “Guantanamo List” issued in a human rights dispute between Russia and the USA. Garcia is barred from the country for his part […]
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Blatter: Qatar Will Host 2022 World Cup
Following the conclusion of a two-day executive committee meeting, FIFA President Sepp Blatter allayed any fears that Qatari World Cup organizers may have had about possiblychanging the destination of the 2022 World Cup. “The Fifa World Cup 2022 will be played in Qatar. There you have it,” Blatter said. The other big takeaway from the […]
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FIFA won't throw Qatar under the bus
[WORLD CUP 2022] Qatar 2022 is three World Cups away, but it continues to dominate the international soccer news. More trouble with Brazil 2014 stadiums?Hooliganism and racism and anti-gay laws in Russia, the 2018 host? Who cares? After the first day of two days of FIFA executive committee meetings in Zurich, the only thing that […]
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Pressure Builds for FIFA Over Qatar World Cup
International pressure from organizations like the United Nations is building on both FIFA and the Middle Eastern country of Qatar in an effort to prevent the exploitation of migrant workersin the buildup to the 2022 World Cup, which Qatar will be hosting. Even UEFA President Michel Platini has said he is “much more concerned” with the […]
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FIFA Rep 'Appalled and Disturbed' by Qatar Report
FIFA vice president Jim Boyce has called for an immediate investigation into the deaths of dozens of Nepalese workers as well as the mistreatment of thousands of others working inQatar as the country prepares to host the 2022 World Cup. The Northern Irishman said he was “appalled and disturbed” after reading the Guardian’s report on […]
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Report: 4,000 Could Die Building Qatar World Cup Stadiums
The Guardian reports that the International Trade Union Confederation has claimed that up to 4,000 migrant workers could die in Qatar as a result of building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.The group has been analyzing construction builders’ deaths for the last two years, and has found that the annual death toll in construction could […]
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Europe Agrees Summer World Cup in Qatar 'Impossible'
Europe’s soccer federations on Thursday agreed it would be “impossible” to stage the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in the summer as currently planned. Speaking after 54 European soccerfederations met in Dubrovnik, Croatia, to debate the issue on Wednesday, FIFA vice president Jim Boyce said: “Obviously there are certain reservations regarding the World Cup in […]
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World Cup conundrum is huge political test for Gulati
[QATAR 2022] About the only thing for certain about the 2022 World Cup is that it won’t played in the summer in Qatar. If, as FIFA president Sepp Blatter proposes, the tournament is moved to the winter in Qatar, the move won’t take place without a fight. Just howmuch a fight U.S. Soccer president Sunil […]
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Winter World Cup looms after FIFA's mistake
By Paul Gardner We can now take it as official that FIFA screwed up when it awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. We’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth. Sepp Blatterhimself has neighed in with the admission that it “may well be that we made a mistake” in naming Qatar. A reminder: the vote […]