Holloway likened the move of the World Cup to Europe to an agreement to change the date for Christmas. “So let’s change everything just because your weather is so hot,” he said. “Great! I mean, what’s going on? What happened to the air-conditioned arenas. 25 of them are pretty expensive or what?”
closely followed by the approval of UEFA President Michel Platini, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke and then Blatter himself: This unintended idea has now been donated.
FIFA’s own technical evaluation of hosting offers, although not ignored by the executive committee, called Qatar “high risk” due to its hot summer – “potential health risk for players, officials, the FIFA family and spectators”. At present, the temperature in the arena is still only 27 ° C in the coldest time. But it is clear that code.blog the guarantees that (carbon-neutral) air conditioning, strong enough to cool a dozen large stadiums and probably another 32 to train finalists, are ready in time for 2022, which is seriously suspected in Zurich, in two weeks. later. made a controversial choice of summer host in the Middle East.
Now that the vote is over, Blatter is also talking about moving the Qatar World Cup to other countries in the Middle East, certainly against the spirit, if not the rules, of the bidding campaign. Although hosting matches in neighboring countries such as the United Arab Emirates is not harmful, moving from June to January is possible because it puts the international match in the most direct opposition to clubs that have satisfied in the past. Rainbow. decades.
The clubs are very worried that their FIFA leagues will close during the two-month break and their best players will return tired and / or injured in the middle of the season. The danger facing FIFA is to rebel against its plans for large European teams, which will cause the governing body to think unintentionally, recall the vote in 2022, and instead elect the US, the second.