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2022 World Cup to begin in November

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Sage00

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The 2022 World Cup in Qatar should take place in November and December, a Fifa taskforce has recommended.
Key football officials met in Doha to discuss a number of options following fears a summer event would endanger the health of players and fans.
Qatari temperatures in June and July can exceed 40 degrees centigrade.
Taskforce chief Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa also recommended that the 2022 tournament should be shortened by a few days.
But there are no plans to reduce the size of the tournament from 32 teams or 64 matches.
The recommendation is expected to be ratified by the executive committee of world football's governing body next month.
The news will upset some of Europe's top leagues, who preferred an April-May option to minimise disruption to their own domestic programmes.
The other date under consideration was January-February, but that raised the prospect of a clash with the Winter Olympics.
BBC Radio 5 live's sports news reporter Richard Conway said it looked like Europe's leading leagues had "lost this argument" but indicated the row over dates would rumble on.
"It's not not the end of the story by a long way, but organisers in Qatar will be hopeful that this is the start perhaps of building and planning for the 2022 World Cup for real," he added.
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http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/31600194

Or.. How about another country that is actually capable of hosting it at the time that is best for everyone.
 
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Valravn

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Well, i dont think thats feasible. Lets plan the word cup in the busiest time period of various leagues in the world. I think the countries primary league organisations need to object to this.
 
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Dabanton

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Oh FIFA lol

Now lets see if the other federations actually have balls to not go along with this. This whole affair has been a massive clusterfuck.

Could be enough to finally bring down Blatter (yeah I'm dreaming)
 
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Zaph

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Unbelievable.

Let's impact leagues worth billions all over the world so that we can receive a few measly bribes.
 
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-Eddman-

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Joseph Blatter is by far the worst thing that has happened to football since its creation, above hooligans and tiki-taka.
 
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B-Dubs

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I guess the bribes went through OK. I was worried we might not have enough corruption to make this happen, never know when common sense might break out after all.
 
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Hanmik

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-Eddman- said:
Joseph Blatter is by far the worst thing that has happened to football since its creation, above hooligans and tiki-taka.
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jelly

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Who cares when they want to hold it, that is meaningless to the real issue, slavery has been used to build this world cup, hundreds of workers have died and still on going.

The bribing, temperature etc. is not what countries should be talking about, they should be be boycotting the World Cup. FFS, workers have their passports taking away and can't leave.
 
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Real Hero

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jelly said:
Who cares when they want to hold it, that is meaningless to the real issue, slavery has been used to build this world cup, hundreds of workers have died and still on going.

The bribing, temperature etc. is not what countries should be talking about, they should be be boycotting the World Cup.
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pretty much, anyone with conscience wouldn't turn up
 
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DerZuhälter

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And when is real football i.e. Champions League, Premier League, Bundesliga and LoLiga going to be played in 2022?

Is this a football thread? Better hide, before FootyGAF finds out...
 
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B-Dubs

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jelly said:
Who cares when they want to hold it, that is meaningless to the real issue, slavery has been used to build this world cup, hundreds of workers have died and still on going.

The bribing, temperature etc. is not what countries should be talking about, they should be be boycotting the World Cup. FFS, workers have their passports taking away and can't leave.
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It all comes back to the bribery and corruption, without that nothing else happens. Of course the slavery is horrible and needs to be constantly condemned, but we're more likely to be able to do something about the corruption. I wish we could do more about the slavery, but short of every nation boycotting the cup or just taking it away from them, they'll just keep on doing what they're doing, but with all of FIFA's corruption it's unlikely to happen. Putting pressure on them any other way will do all of jackshit, Qatar doesn't give a rat's ass what we think.
 
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-Eddman-

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jelly said:
Who cares when they want to hold it, that is meaningless to the real issue, slavery has been used to build this world cup, hundreds of workers have died and still on going.

The bribing, temperature etc. is not what countries should be talking about, they should be be boycotting the World Cup.
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I agree with you, but history tells us most people don't care. Days before the 1968 olympics, the mexican government used the army to kill hundreds of students who were protesting against the president. 10 days later, the motherfucker was at the opening speech talking about the "games of peace". Nobody gave a shit.
 
EdwardTivrusky

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Surge said:
Im anxious to see the reaction to this from different leagues around the world now.
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Unfortunately i think it will be difficult to maintain any form of protest against this for the next 7 years. There's going to be some anger and outrage that will be forgotten in a few months, i mean what else could happen?

Everyone will be paid off to move their tournaments and everyone will turn up at the slavery-domes to participate. Their monied Eastern owners will make sure of it. Money will grease the outrage away is my cynical view, at least at a corporate & governmental level.

What could put flies in the ointment? Companies not bidding highly for the TV rights? Teams and tournaments refusing to reschedule?
 
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Dabanton

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jelly said:
Who cares when they want to hold it, that is meaningless to the real issue, slavery has been used to build this world cup, hundreds of workers have died and still on going.

The bribing, temperature etc. is not what countries should be talking about, they should be be boycotting the World Cup. FFS, workers have their passports taking away and can't leave.
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The megacrops like Coca Cola,Nike etc will put out some cool ads and people will forget.

You're right that the slave labour should be the focus but it speaks volumes that many people are more concerned how this will affect euro football. This whole disgusting facade should have been halted when so many people started dying. But FIFA know they're firm as long as the sponsors are on board. If people really,really want to stop this world cup aim your bile at the companies keeping them afloat.
 
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LeeRoyBrown

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It fucking should have gone to Australia...you know the country that just won the Asian Cup in Australia, the most successful Asian Cup ever.

So basically it's a 4.5 year gap instead of 4 year.

Lord.
 
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Tobinishi

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Can't believe that they actually went with Qatar in the first place but this decision makes it even worse. How is it even possible that nobody seems to have thought about it beforehand?

It will fuck up pretty much everything. Leagues have to re-scheduled, probably no public viewing events in Europe, etc.
 
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Xando

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DerZuhälter;153449096 said:
And when is real football i.e. Champions League, Premier League, Bundesliga and LoLiga going to be played in 2022?
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Probably running until June or something.


Fucking Fifa man, World Cup has to be in summer, who's gonna go to the fucking fan fest if it's - 10 °C.
 
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neorej

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So World Cup in november and december, then in january and february the Africa Cup. Yeah, European leagues are going to be messed up in 22/23.
 
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