Qatar will not be hosting the 2022 World Cup of Soccer, FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger told Sport Bild on Monday.
"I personally think that, in the end, the 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar," he said, citing the region's sweltering summer climate.
"Medics say that they cannot accept responsibility with a World Cup taking place under these conditions."
Qatar organizers, who won the right to host the tournament in 2010, claim the intense heat, routinely rising above 40 Celsius, will not be a problem because of the cooling technologies it plans to employed in stadiums, training areas and fan zones, there is still widespread concern over the health of the players and visiting supporters.
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That's just one guy's personal opinion and not the organization itself. Still to be seen if FIFA itself can admit they were "wrong" (i.e. corrupt) and put the games somewhere else
That's just one guy's personal opinion and not the organization itself. Still to be seen if FIFA itself can admit they were "wrong" (i.e. corrupt) and put the games somewhere else
Certainly, you are right.
It is worth noting the other quotes in the article as well:
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter, in May, called the selection of Qatar as tournament host "a mistake."
"The Qatar technical report indicated clearly that it is too hot in summer, but the executive committee with quite a big majority decided all the same that the tournament would be in Qatar," Blatter told told Swiss television station RTS.
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'You can cool down the stadiums but you can't cool down the whole country.'
- FIFA president Sepp Blatter, July 17, 2014
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That's just one guy's personal opinion and not the organization itself. Still to be seen if FIFA itself can admit they were "wrong" (i.e. corrupt) and put the games somewhere else
Amusingly, they seem to be set to use the weather as the excuse to remove the tournament specifically so they can avoid admitting to corruption.
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It seems like using the weather as an excuse is owning them up to lawsuits. Qatar has already sunk a ton of money into construction so how can back out using an excuse that existed at the time they awarded the contract.
It seems like using the weather as an excuse is owning them up to lawsuits. Qatar has already sunk a ton of money into construction so how can back out using an excuse that existed at the time they awarded the contract.
And to think people had issues with Qatar's treatment of their foreign workers.......phew.....
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Why not just hold the tournament in the winter then? I know the European leagues are going to bitch and complain about this, but a lot of the leagues where some of the top players play these days run their season in the summer (MLS and Russian league).
Much better excuse than the weather or corruption or the holding of slaves against their will to take it from them.
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Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya's capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country's collapse into a failed state.
Moreover, the new overlords of Tripoli are allies of Ansar al-Sharia, a brutal jihadist movement suspected of killing America's then ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and of trying to murder his British counterpart, Sir Dominic Asquith.
Barely three years after Britain helped to free Libya from Col Gaddafi's tyranny, anti-Western radicals hold sway. How could Britain's goal of a stable and friendly Libya have been thwarted so completely?
Step forward a fabulously wealthy Gulf state that owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East.
Qatar, the owner of Harrods, has dispatched cargo planes laden with weapons to the victorious Islamist coalition, styling itself "Libya Dawn".
Western officials have tracked the Qatari arms flights as they land in the city of Misrata, about 100 miles east of Tripoli, where the Islamist militias have their stronghold. Even after the fall of the capital and the removal of Libya's government, Qatar is "still flying in weapons straight to Misrata airport", said a senior Western official.
So it is that Qatar buys London property while working against British interests in Libya and arming friends of the jihadists who tried to kill one of our ambassadors. A state that partly owns 1 Hyde Park, London's most expensive apartment block, and the Shard, the city's tallest building, is working with people who would gladly destroy Western society.
The remarkable truth is that few in the Middle East would be shocked. From Hamas in the Gaza Strip to radical armed movements in Syria, Qatar's status as a prime sponsor of violent Islamists, including groups linked to al-Qaeda, is clear to diplomats and experts.
Yeah the weather is just the easiest reason/excuse to pull the plug. There's a litany of other reasons to pull the pin on this mess, weather is probably the path of least resistance.
"Well the medics have advised that they can't guarantee the safety & health of those attending. So really, it's a safety issue."
these allegations that FIFA is corrupt are stunning to me; however, it should b enoted that while I am a sports fan, I am not really a scoccer fan - so I may have jsut missed the signs while I was watching TV in my gumdrop house on lollypop lane.......
The "fact" it gets up to over 40 in Qutar is only a recent short term blip. I think that sitting ina cramped stadium with 99,999 or so my my closest freisnds would be more relaxing than a day at the beach.....
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Russia and Qatar should both be stripped of their World Cups. Horrible choices only made because they bribed the right amount. 1 million people went to Brazil for it's World Cup. I'd be shocked if more than 500,000 went to both those World Cup's combined.
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Russia and Qatar should both be stripped of their World Cups. Horrible choices only made because they bribed the right amount. 1 million people went to Brazil for it's World Cup. I'd be shocked if more than 500,000 went to both those World Cup's combined.
Sadly, I think you are wrong.
I don't think soccer fans will stay away for political reasons or safety reasons.
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Brazil is an awesome destination for a major event. Russia and Qatar are utterly horrible destinations. We don't even know what Russia is gonna look like then politically (it might be boycotted by every western country which means no more than 50,000 people will visit), and Qatar is literally taking your life into your hands with the weather (and, you know, Qatar being a massive sponsor of terrorism). They'll both tank in terms of getting outside fans. Replace them with England and the US and you get a massive outside fan presence. FIFA only cares about the bribe, however.
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Brazil is an awesome destination for a major event. Russia and Qatar are utterly horrible destinations. We don't even know what Russia is gonna look like then politically (it might be boycotted by every western country which means no more than 50,000 people will visit), and Qatar is literally taking your life into your hands with the weather (and, you know, Qatar being a massive sponsor of terrorism). They'll both tank in terms of getting outside fans. Replace them with England and the US and you get a massive outside fan presence. FIFA only cares about the bribe, however.
If there is one thing years of soccer fan rioting has taught me...............safety is a secondary concern.
Brazil, while awesome, is hardly a peaceful Shangra La. There is/were safety concerns.
What was the fan turnout in South Africa, because that is one unsafe country.
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Brazil is an awesome destination for a major event. Russia and Qatar are utterly horrible destinations. We don't even know what Russia is gonna look like then politically (it might be boycotted by every western country which means no more than 50,000 people will visit), and Qatar is literally taking your life into your hands with the weather (and, you know, Qatar being a massive sponsor of terrorism). They'll both tank in terms of getting outside fans. Replace them with England and the US and you get a massive outside fan presence. FIFA only cares about the bribe, however.
Oh please, I would walk around at 2 am in downtown Doha 10 times out of 10 before I do that in Sao Paolo.
While the bribery allegations are very real and should definitely be investigated, the safety issues with Qatar are non-existent.
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Qatar has likely lost the World Cup
