The winter World Cup in Qatar can fans and clubs shiver – N24

Winter spectacle instead Summer Fairy Tale: The World Cup 2022 to be held in November and December. . A first in the history of football – the problems brings with it

Public Viewing with mulled wine and gloves instead Sommermärchen with barbecue weather: for the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup is the Final 2022 winter spectacle. The Task Force of the world governing body FIFA has decided at their meeting in Doha, as expected for a world date from late November to late December. The tournament will be shortened by a few days, talking is a discharge from November 26 to December 23. The FIFA Executive Committee has the 19th / 20th March absegnen in Zurich the World Cup date yet.

After a six-month consultation process of appointment in November / December, was “most useful” and have the full support of all six confederations, said FIFA in a statement with , There had been only this solution after all the discussions said FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke.

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dispute to date for the World Cup finals months

For months it had great given dispute over the appointment of the World Cup finals. A host as usual in the summer months, is not practical due to the high temperatures of up to 40 degrees. Last were also the January / February 2022 interview, however, this date would collide with the Winter Olympics. The IOC major event to take place until February 20, 2022 Almaty or Beijing of 4.

A diversion to 2023 was excluded from “legal reasons” affirmed FIFA. Even the alternative proposed by the European clubs and leagues, to discharge the World Cup from late April to late May, did not prove ideal solution. In this period would also have been expected high temperatures, also begins 2022. Ramadan on 2 April. Thus, the appointment finding was loud Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Task Force, a major challenge was.

That the World Cup kicks is now well placed to the latest possible date, probably a concession to the his European clubs and leagues. Likewise, the proposal of the Task Force, the Confederations Cup as usual discharge in the year before the World Cup tournament is not in Qatar, but in another member country of the Asian Football Association AFC in the summer.

Instead, to the Club World Cup in November / December 2021 be performed as a test run in Qatar. That the World Cup to be held in the summer hardly, but almost everyone involved was clear. Doctors had warned of the great heat in Qatar. Even though the World Cup organizers wanted the temperatures cool down at a summer’s World Cup in the stadiums, the burden on players and fans outside the arenas would have been great.

European leagues are the losers

But even after the compromise, there are many losers, in particular the European clubs and leagues that have to interrupt their season for a good two months. Therefore, a great outcry in England, finally heard the time around Christmas with the Boxing Day sales to the strongest schedule in the league. “It’s disappointing. It’s the wrong decision. We have been left in the lurch by UEFA,” complained Premier League chief Richard Scudamore the BBC.

The fact that the championships, the Task Force were also represented, bend the proposal now, should not have been implemented without adequate compensation. But the African Union has a problem, after the African Nations Cup to be held in January 2023 Guinea.

As a loser, FIFA remains, although Sepp Blatter the November deadline gladly sold as his idea , Ever since the World Cup award in December 2010, the Qatar World Cup has become an annoyance. The appointment difficult finding was accompanied by serious allegations of corruption and scandal to many deaths on construction sites in the country.