Football: 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar, says FIFA's Theo Zwanziger

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Football: 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar, says FIFA's Theo Zwanziger - The Economic Times

Qatar will not host the World Cup in 2022,
according to Theo Zwanziger, the German member
on the executive committee of world football's
governing body FIFA

BERLIN: Qatar will not host the World Cup in 2022,
according to Theo Zwanziger , the German member on
the executive committee of world football's governing
body FIFA.
"I think that at the end of the day the 2022 World Cup
will not take place in Qatar," Zwanziger said in an
interview with Sport Bild Plus.
The former head of the German football federation
(DFB) cited high summer temperatures as the reason
Qatar would lose the right to host football's global
showpiece.
"As Mr Zwanziger himself says, it's his personal
opinion," a FIFA spokesman responded to AFP
subsidiary SID when asked about the German's
statement.
Zwanziger said: "Doctors say, and I had insisted on
this point in the protocol, that they cannot guarantee
that a World Cup can be held in summer in these
conditions."
While Qatar has reportedly developed stadium cooling
systems, Zwanziger said "the World Cup involves not
only stadiums. There are fans coming from the four
corners of the world who will be concerned by the
heat".
"The first incident putting a life in danger will be
subject to an investigation. And that, nobody in the
FIFA Executive Committee would want to reply to."
But in an interview with Die Welt newspaper, Hassan
al-Thawadi , secretary-general of the Qatar 2022
organising committee, declared himself "sure that the
2022 World Cup would take place in Qatar".
"No, I'm not worried," he said. "Firstly because there's
no basis to lose the World Cup.
"And secondly because it's the first World Cup in the
Middle East. "When people think of this region, it's
rather in terms of conflict. The World Cup will be an
occasion to unite peoples. It will leave a positive
heritage."
Controversy has plagued FIFA's awarding of the World
Cup to Qatar in 2010, with summer temperatures in
the Gulf emirate reaching the upper-40s Celsius.
The idea of switching the World Cup to cooler winter
months does not sit comfortably with all officials of
Europe's big leagues.
Gas-rich Qatar has also come under the spotlight over
foreign workers' rights as well as accusations that
corruption played a part in winning the right to host
the World Cup.
Britain's Sunday Times newspaper has alleged that
former Qatari football boss Mohamed Bin Hammam
paid more than $5 million (3.7m euros) to gain
support for the emirate ahead of the vote.
Qatar has strongly denied the allegations. FIFA's ethic
committee is to announce in early 2015 the results of
its investigation into the attribution of not only the
2022 World Cup to Qatar, but also the 2018 edition to
Russia.

 

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Good ,Built on slave labour from the sub continent

That slave labor would rather do slavery in gulf than die of hunger in subcontinent . Its a larger shortcoming on our part than theirs .