The 2022 World Cup is still 11 years away, and so the few problems that arose as Qatar hosted the 2011 Asian Cup the past three weeks are far from dire. Nonetheless, questions will persist aboutwhether the World Cup should be staged during the winter rather than in the searing summer heat, and how a […]
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Blazer questions 2022 World Cup thinking
[2022 WORLD CUP] Chuck Blazer, the lone American on the FIFA executive committee, has broken his silence on the issue ofa winter World Cup, telling Reuters that the idea of switching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to the winter would “upset the entire football world.” Blazer had been very critical of the Qatar2022 bid’s […]
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Qatar turns on Blatter
So much for Sepp Blatter‘s plans to play the 2022 World Cup in Qatar during the winner to avoid the Gulf state’s summer heat. Mohammed bin Hammam, the Qatari member of FIFA’s executive committee, dismissed recent suggestions that the World Cup be played in the winter and also in other Gulf states. “I believe Qatar […]
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Qatar World Cup leaves English boss with 'cold sweat'
England came out of the vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as the big loser. It was eliminated in the first round of the 2018 race against three other European bidders, and it must cope with the2022 World Cup in Qatar. Either the 2022 tournament is held in the summer — which no […]
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German judge quits FIFA ethics committee
Guenter Hirsch, the former president of Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, resigned as a member of the FIFA tthics committee to protest what he said was thelack of effort to investigate alleged corruption within FIFA’s ranks. Hirsch said that after the selection of Russia and Qatar as the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, […]
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From the brilliant to the frightful: a look back at 2010
Farewell 2010. A highly varied year for the soccer world. A World Cup year — but it turned out to be a far from brilliant World Cup, one that, at the very end, was tarnished by a cynical and justplain dirty performance from the Dutch. They got what they deserved — they lost — and […]
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Bin Hammam supports winter World Cup
[WORLD CUP 2022] Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation and a key member of theFIFA executive committee that picked Qatar over the USA to host the 2022 World Cup, became the latest person to back moving the 2022 World Cup to the winter months to avoid Qatar’s desert heat insummer. […]
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Qatar's youth system at work
To understand why Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, you need to see how its reach extends halfway around the world to Guatemala, where its Aspire Academy, run by Spaniard Josep Colomer, has been prospecting for talent.
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Grondona says he voted for … USA
Argentine Julio Grondona, the senior vice president on the FIFA executive committee, told Fox Sports Argentina he voted for Spain/Portugal to host the 2018World Cup and — surprise — the United States, not Qatar, to host the 2022 World Cup. It’s been assumed Grondona voted for Qatar as part of a pact Qatar struck with […]
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First winter World Cup to be studied
[QATAR 2022] Air-conditioning all or part of Qatar for the 2022 World Cup may not be necessary as FIFA seems to be seriously considering the idea of playing thefinals for the first time in winter. “FIFA’s job is to have a World Cup that protects the players so we take note of the recommendations and […]