Not a soccer fan, but I never understood why you’d hold the World Cup in a place where the temperature is over 120 degrees for many days in the summer. Who the hell would play in those conditions?
The various Emirates have all the money ever printed, so they probably plan a 1 square mile building, under one roof, all air conditioned.
I’ve only heard bits and pieces of the story but I believe the Qatar matches were planned to be played in the cooler months of November and December which conflicts with the meat of the European regular season schedule. They were not jazzed about that at all. The whole thing was a mess from the beginning.
Not a soccer fan, but I never understood why you’d hold the World Cup in a place where the temperature is over 120 degrees for many days in the summer. Who the hell would play in those conditions?
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Plan was to play in November and December.
They could play them at night or indoors.
Because you paid hundreds of millions in bribes to make sure you can.
The 2022 World Cup is supposed to take place in November of that year, not the summer, due to the heat. Which of course shifts all the soccer games in Britain for the year before and the year after.