FIFA World Cup 2022 ( November 21 to December 18, 2022 )

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This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab World and it will be the second World Cup held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament was held in South Korea and Japan.

In addition, the tournament will be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The reigning World Cup champions are France.

Due to Qatar's intense summer heat, this World Cup will be held from late-November to mid-December, making it the first tournament not to be held in May, June, or July; it is to be played in a reduced timeframe of around 28 days.

The first match played at the tournament will be contested between Senegal and the Netherlands at Al Thumama Stadium, Doha. The final is due to be held on 18 December 2022, which is also Qatar National Day.

Labor condition

Qatar has faced strong criticism due to the treatment of foreign workers involved in preparation for the World Cup, with Amnesty International referring to "forced labour" and stating that hundreds or thousands of migrant workers have died as a result of human rights abuses, and careless and inhumane work conditions. The Guardian has estimated that up to 4000 workers may die due to lax safety and other causes by the time the competition is held. Some other cite 6500.

Corruption Investigation and hosting

Accusations of corruption have been made relating to how Qatar won the right to host the event. A FIFA internal investigation and report cleared Qatar of any wrongdoing, but chief investigator Michael J. Garcia has since described FIFA's report on his enquiry as containing "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations." On 27 May 2015, Swiss federal prosecutors opened an investigation into corruption and money laundering related to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. On 6 August 2018, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter claimed that Qatar had used "black ops", suggesting that the bid committee had cheated to win the hosting rights

On 20 May 2020, the World Cup organizing committee secretary general Hassan Al Thawadi raised a concern that the global economy could witness a recession period due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which will turn in and impact the ability of football fans to afford traveling and participating in the celebrations of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Mascot, ball & official song

The tournament's official mascot was unveiled on 1 April 2022, during the group stage draw. Its name is La’eeb, which is an Arabic word meaning "super-skilled player". The official website of FIFA says: "La’eeb will be known for his youthful spirit; spreading joy and confidence everywhere he goes", and the official backstory of the character, published there, claims that it comes from a parallel world where tournament mascots live, "a world where ideas and creativity form the basis of characters that live in the minds of everyone"

The official match ball, the "Al Rihla", was unveiled on 30 March 2022. It was mainly inspired by the culture, architecture, iconic boats and flag of Qatar. In Arabic, the word Al Rihla means "the journey". The ball was designed with sustainability as a priority, making it the first ever official match ball created with water-based glues and inks.

As "the game is getting faster" and "speeds up", Adidas used some new features, allowing to provide speed and improve the accuracy of the ball

The official song of the tournament is "Hayya Hayya (Better Together)", performed by Trinidad Cardona, Davido and AISHA, released on 1 April 2022 along with the music video



Controversies

FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar's desert state was a "blatant mistake".Frank Lowy, chairman of Football Federation Australia, said that if the 2022 World Cup were moved to November and thus upset the schedule of the A-League, they would seek compensation from FIFA. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, stated that they would consider legal action against FIFA because a move would interfere with the Premier League's popular Christmas and New Year fixture programme.

Venues

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/0...for_2022_all_of_them_ar-a-1_1648825460266.jpg

Most of the Eight stadiums can fit 40k except two with 60 and 80k attendance capacity.
 
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Venues covered https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...tar-2022-guide-World-Cups-eight-stadiums.html


The giant 60,000-seat Al-Bayt stadium in the shape of a Bedouin tent, where the opening match will be played, will be inaugurated on November 30,2021. The Lusail stadium, where the final will be played, an 80,000-seat juggernaut whose design evokes the copper bowl, filled with dates, which is handed to guests – a symbol of Arab hospitality.

The construction of the other six has been completed and the majority of them are already operational. This is also the case for the new Qatar airport, the Doha metro, the new town of Lusail and the Msheireb district, four mega-projects, made imperative by the World Cup. This construction frenzy, spread over ten years, cost the emirate 200 billion dollars (about 177 billion euros), including 6 billion to 7 billion dollars for the stadiums. “From an infrastructure point of view, we will be ready at the start of 2022”, welcomes Hassan Al-Thawadi, the director of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (“Supreme Committee for Delivery and Inheritance”), responsible for the preparation of the event.
 
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There are two international breaks between now and the World Cup. The first of those is a bumper four-game break at the start of June, the second a two-game break in September.

England’s opener against Iran on November 21 comes just eight days after the Premier League fixtures on the weekend of November 12 and 13.

Compared to previous world cups, that’s hardly any preparation time at all. In 2018, the World Cup came three weeks after the Champions League final and more than a month after the end of the Premier League season. The gap was similar in 2014, giving England the chance to play three friendly matches before heading to Brazil.

England could possibly squeeze one friendly match in before heading to Qatar, but there will be little time on the training ground to prepare things like set pieces, which the Three Lions used to such great effect at Russia 2018.


Other teams are in roughly the same situation.

Some leagues might have a more accommodating schedule, like Major League Soccer, which finishes its post-season on November 5 or South Korea’s K League which finishes at the end of October. This could give teams from those countries the chance to squeeze in a training camp featuring domestic-based players, but those training camps would be without Europe-based stars like the USA’s Christian Pulisic or South Korea’s Son Heung-min.


The World Cup schedule also has less time between matches to correct any mistakes. While the compact nature of Qatar 2022 will save on travel time, there are just eight days between England’s first and last group games, compared to ten days in between the games in Russia.
 
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From LInker to Beckham to sponsors of Dutch, Belgium and Denmark teams to US and German teams & Adidas all have interest and concerns about the host, Qatar.


Gary LIneker refused hosting glamorous event in Doha last month that set the match ups for this year’s World Cup in Qatar

Lineker’s reluctance to host the draw — which left FIFA scrambling to find a replacement — is only one recent example of the line celebrity athletes and sponsors are having to tread when it comes to the Qatar World Cup, which since its inception has been mired in controversy and complaints about the country’s treatment of migrant workers and the gay community.

His decision came as multiple companies, and even the federations of some participating nations, are taking steps to distance their brands from the host country even though they have paid millions of dollars to attach themselves to the world’s most high-profile sporting event.

For instance, ING Group, a major international financial services and banking group that sponsors the Netherlands and Belgium national teams, has decided not to leverage those relationships during the event. The company said it would not accept any of its ticket allocation for the tournament or engage in any World Cup-related promotion, a spokesman told The New York Times.


“Given the discussion and concerns around the human rights situation of the tournament infrastructure we think it’s inappropriate,” the spokesman said. Instead, ING said, the company will focus its efforts on the women’s European soccer championships to be held in England this summer.

Several other partners of the Dutch and Belgian teams also issued statements outlining their plans to ignore what would in normal circumstances be a major marketing platform. GLS, a parcel service provider that sponsors Belgium’s team, told The Times that while it has backed the Red Devils since 2011 and would continue to do so, it would not take up its ticket allocation for customer promotions or engage in any advertising campaigns in Qatar “because we consider a commercial use of the World Cup 2022 in the context of the human rights situation better not take place.”

Carrefour, however, a French-based supermarket chain with outlets in Qatar that also sponsors the Belgium team, issued a robust response to claims that it too would join the others in what appears to be a collective boycott of the World Cup. “Carrefour and its subsidiaries are not engaged in a boycott of any kind,”

U.S. Soccer has held internal discussions about messaging it can provide to players for when they face inevitable questions about human rights issues, and Germany’s team wore T-shirts bearing the slogan “human rights” before a World Cup qualifying match last year.

After Denmark’s team secured its qualification last year, its soccer federation announced that two of its sponsors, the national lottery Danske Spil and a prominent bank, Arbejdernes Landsbank, had agreed to surrender the space they have paid for on the team’s training gear so that it can be replaced by human rights messages during the World Cup.

Qatar’s multimillion-dollar agreement with Beckham, now also a sports team owner and investor whose celebrity transcends soccer, extends beyond the World Cup; it is, in many respects, a deal for the former England national team captain to endorse Qatar itself. “There’s so much risk attached to this,” said Tim Crow, a former chief executive of Synergy, a firm that has advised Olympic and World Cup sponsors. “I was kind of surprised he’s decided to position himself with something for which there’s so much risk, particularly for a guy who doesn’t need the money.”

Beckham’s relationship with Qatar may lead to questions for one for his other partners, the sportswear manufacturer Adidas. The company provided few specifics about how it would activate its relationship with Beckham for the Qatar World Cup, saying only that he “is a valued, long-term member of the Adidas family and our partnership will continue as such.”

-NYT article

 
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When will the matches be played?

The first two rounds of group stage games will take place at 13.00, 16.00, 17.00 and 22.00 local time.

That’s 10.00, 13.00, 16.00 and 19.00 in the UK, 05.00, 09.00, 11.00 and 14.00 in Eastern Time, and 02.00, 05.00, 08.00 and 11.00 in Pacific Time.

The last round of group games and the knockout matches will take place at 18.00 and 22.00 local time. In the UK, that’s 15.00 and 19.00. In the US, that’s 10.00 and 14.00 in Eastern Time, and 07.00 and 11.00 in Pacific Time.

The final, on December 18, is at 18.00 local time. That’s 15.00 in the UK, 10.00 in Eastern time and 07.00 in Pacific Time.

fUN 7 AM final for west coasters.

How will the winter World Cup affect the Premier League?
In November of last year, the Premier League announced that the 2022-23 season will be adjusted to accommodate the World Cup.

The season will start on August 6, 2022, and the league will pause on November 13 which will be nearing the midway point in the season.

The league fixtures will then resume on Boxing Day, just eight days after the World Cup final and finish on May 28, 2023.
 
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FIFA to make major announcement on 16 June related to FIFA World Cup 2026

On Thursday, 16 June, FIFA will make a major and highly anticipated announcement related to the staging of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ across Canada, Mexico and the United States. Twenty-two candidate host cities are currently vying for the right to stage matches for the 48-team tournament hosted by three nations – both firsts for a FIFA World Cup. The current candidate host cities are: Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Edmonton, Guadalajara, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Monterrey, Nashville, New York/New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington DC/Baltimore.
 
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Qatar got it backwards and FIFA is in support ? and alcohol sale not fully confirmed ?




“It’s clearly difficult for most fans to know how expensive the World Cup is going to be for them,” says FSE’s CEO, Ronan Evain. “To book flights or a hotel you need the tickets first, so you need to pay to know how much it is going to cost. There is a consistent lack of information about the process and what there is is difficult to understand; nothing is written clearly on paper. It feels like Fifa and Qatar are doing their best to persuade people not to go.”

Only once you have a ticket can you apply to the Qatari government for a permit to enter the country, known as a “Hayya Card”.

The hunt for promised $80-per-night accommodation is often fruitless, unprepossessing “Fan Village Cabins” start at $200 a night, and AirBnB-style apartments come in at about $1,000. To what extent these options will be refreshed once the second stage of sales is confirmed remains unclear.

Calculations by Football Supporters Europe predict that this will be the most expensive World Cup for travelling fans by some margin. Its figures suggest a cost of €2,770 for staying for three group matches, compared with €1,000 during Russia 2018. To stay for the whole tournament will be more like €6,500, it says.

There is a cheap category of tickets available only to locals, and fans flying in from neighbouring countries is also a possibility, though unlikely for every fixture (and flights from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to Doha to watch Belgium v Canada would still start at £500 return).

The Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, responsible for organising the tournament, remains confident of staging an event that will attract global interest. “We expect to welcome more than 1 million visitors throughout the duration of the tournament,” a spokesperson said. “The host country will deliver up to 130,000 rooms, which equates to 3.6m room nights. With six months until kick-off, Qatar is on track to ensure football fans from all over the world can book a wide range of unique and affordable accommodation options. There is no concern that demand could outstrip supply.”

What fans will do in Qatar is also to be confirmed. Expectations were of two grand fan parks that, crucially, would be licensed to sell alcohol. Those plans, according to the Supreme Committee, are continuing, with more information “in due course”.

Source is Guardian.
 
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Poor tackling: Yellow card for 2022 FIFA World Cup’s carbon neutrality claim
Executive summary

The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is being advertised as a “carbon neutral” event. This means that its net impact on the climate is zero or negligible. However, our investigation of the available evidence casts serious doubts on this claim, which likely underestimates the tournament’s true emissions levels and climate impact. This is not a harmless exercise, as it misleads players, fans, sponsors and the public into believing that their (potential) involvement in the event will come at no cost to the climate.

This investigation objectively assesses the credibility of the “carbon neutrality” claim and identifies where it misleads the public.

The organizers estimate that the World Cup will emit 3.6 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e). Our analysis finds that this does not accurately represent the tournament’s actual footprint due to the choice of accounting approach.

The footprint of permanent stadiums purpose built for the tournament was allocated to the event based on a “use-share” basis. To put it simply, this means that the number of days of the tournament were divided by the estimated lifetime of the stadiums to arrive at the share of the total emissions associated with the construction of these facilities attributed to the World Cup. This is problematic because these stadiums have been constructed specifically for the World Cup. Future extensive use of so many stadiums in such a small geographical space is uncertain, especially when considered against the fact that Doha had only one major stadium before it was awarded the World Cup.

Moreover, stadiums are unlikely to be the most efficient or effective venues for the community services that legacy plans envision. In our estimation, the total footprint of the permanent stadiums constructed for the World Cup might be underestimated by a factor of eight, amounting to 1.6MtCO2e, rather than the reported 0.2MtCO2e.

In addition, other sources of emissions could have been underestimated, such as those due to the exclusion of emissions from maintaining and operating stadiums in the many years following the tournament.

This report does not assess the full extent of the impact of implemented climate mitigation measures. However, some of the proposed actions also lack integrity. For example, the World Cup organisers have created a large-scale tree and turf nursery – the largest turf farm in the world – in the middle of the desert. While irrigation uses treated sewage water, the claim that this will absorb CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and contribute to reducing the impact of the event is not credible as this carbon storage is unlikely to be permanent in these artificial and vulnerable green spaces, while carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries to millenia.

To compensate the remaining emissions associated with the World Cup, organisers have contributed to establishing a new carbon credit standard, the Global Carbon Council. While it is supposed to deliver at least 1.8 million credits to offset World Cup emissions, it currently, just months away from the tournament, only has two registered projects, and has issued just over 130,000 credits.

Finally, it is unclear how the World Cup in Qatar relates to FIFA’s own climate neutrality goal for 2040. The international footballing federation announced this target in 2021, but few details are available, and basic information such as the coverage of the target, reference years, and GHG inventory do not seem to be publicly available.
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publi...2022-fifa-world-cups-carbon-neutrality-claim/
 
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Poor tackling: Yellow card for 2022 FIFA World Cup’s carbon neutrality claim
Executive summary

The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is being advertised as a “carbon neutral” event. This means that its net impact on the climate is zero or negligible. However, our investigation of the available evidence casts serious doubts on this claim, which likely underestimates the tournament’s true emissions levels and climate impact. This is not a harmless exercise, as it misleads players, fans, sponsors and the public into believing that their (potential) involvement in the event will come at no cost to the climate.

This investigation objectively assesses the credibility of the “carbon neutrality” claim and identifies where it misleads the public.

The organizers estimate that the World Cup will emit 3.6 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e). Our analysis finds that this does not accurately represent the tournament’s actual footprint due to the choice of accounting approach.

The footprint of permanent stadiums purpose built for the tournament was allocated to the event based on a “use-share” basis. To put it simply, this means that the number of days of the tournament were divided by the estimated lifetime of the stadiums to arrive at the share of the total emissions associated with the construction of these facilities attributed to the World Cup. This is problematic because these stadiums have been constructed specifically for the World Cup. Future extensive use of so many stadiums in such a small geographical space is uncertain, especially when considered against the fact that Doha had only one major stadium before it was awarded the World Cup.

Moreover, stadiums are unlikely to be the most efficient or effective venues for the community services that legacy plans envision. In our estimation, the total footprint of the permanent stadiums constructed for the World Cup might be underestimated by a factor of eight, amounting to 1.6MtCO2e, rather than the reported 0.2MtCO2e.

In addition, other sources of emissions could have been underestimated, such as those due to the exclusion of emissions from maintaining and operating stadiums in the many years following the tournament.

This report does not assess the full extent of the impact of implemented climate mitigation measures. However, some of the proposed actions also lack integrity. For example, the World Cup organisers have created a large-scale tree and turf nursery – the largest turf farm in the world – in the middle of the desert. While irrigation uses treated sewage water, the claim that this will absorb CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and contribute to reducing the impact of the event is not credible as this carbon storage is unlikely to be permanent in these artificial and vulnerable green spaces, while carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries to millenia.

To compensate the remaining emissions associated with the World Cup, organisers have contributed to establishing a new carbon credit standard, the Global Carbon Council. While it is supposed to deliver at least 1.8 million credits to offset World Cup emissions, it currently, just months away from the tournament, only has two registered projects, and has issued just over 130,000 credits.

Finally, it is unclear how the World Cup in Qatar relates to FIFA’s own climate neutrality goal for 2040. The international footballing federation announced this target in 2021, but few details are available, and basic information such as the coverage of the target, reference years, and GHG inventory do not seem to be publicly available.
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publi...2022-fifa-world-cups-carbon-neutrality-claim/
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Glad you posted it, when I read it elsewhere thought it may bring yawn to members but the yellow card introduction here definitely makes it more interesting.
 
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"My fear is - and what the fans suspected - this is becoming the millionaire's World Cup," said a Wales fan.


"It's not for the normal fan, it was ill-conceived in the first instance.
"Real fans are being priced out of the game. I read today it's going to be 5% capacity offered to team supporters. Five per cent?
"For the loyalty we've shown Wales and the money we've given Fifa over the years."

"There's also considerations around Covid - at the moment you still need to show proof of vaccination and you still need to have a PCR test, but that could change by November.

Claire Hopkin, from Newport, lives and works in Dubai, and has recently relaunched Arabian Golf Tours, which specialises in organising bespoke golf tours to the Middle East.
She told BBC Radio Wales' Drive programme Wales fans would do better to head for Dubai as there was "hardly any" accommodation available in Qatar.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61724710

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If was April , would think running into fool's day joke but it's June in Qatar & idolizing Zidane's headbutting .

https://www.goal.com/en/news/zidane...lled-qatar-2022-world-cup/blt1aa64e90d56fa23c
 
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They must have mother of all security means to curb IR terror bitches .

Qatar allows Israelis to attend 2022 World Cup despite absence of diplomatic ties.

Last year, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani stated that the kingdom will not normalize with Israel unless the regime ends its occupation of Palestinian territories, and the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.


https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/...World-Cup,-despite-absence-of-diplomatic-ties
 
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They must have mother of all security means to curb IR terror bitches .

Qatar allows Israelis to attend 2022 World Cup despite absence of diplomatic ties.

Last year, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani stated that the kingdom will not normalize with Israel unless the regime ends its occupation of Palestinian territories, and the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.


https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/...World-Cup,-despite-absence-of-diplomatic-ties
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In return Palestinians will be allowed to attend WC!
For the record Qatar aid to Palestine is more than 360 Million $.
 
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