Since the 1930's, the FIFA World Cup Final has been held in the summer. It was seen as the time for players to be rewarded for amazing past few seasons and culminating in the biggest football tournament in the summer. Every four years (except during the World Wars) the World Cup was held in a host country that bid followed by nominated by voters to host the tournament. In 2010, Qatar was voted as the host of the 2022 World Cup Finals. It was a vote met by excitement for a World Cup to be hosted in such a small area, and outrage at a World Cup being hosted in a country with potentially 140 degrees (Fahrenheit). How could any player be expected to play in such extreme heats? Not only would games be mandated to have breaks every 15 minutes for the heat, but by the 60th minute, the game would be at a walking pace. Thus came Qatar's idea of moving the world cup from summer 2022, to the winter 2021, six months early. This created even more conflict. Not only was FIFA executives in support of this, it seemed as though they had been planning this move early on. Other countries who had been bidding for the right to host the tournament were angered by this. By Qatar being allowed to move the timing of the tournament, it was in essence Qatar bidding for a completely different tournament. While many voters were under the pretense that Qatar would be building technology to cool down the stadiums and surrounding areas (it was a major selling point in building cooling clouds over stadiums), Qatar and FIFA executives were planning on moving the World Cup to the winter. It would be similar to that of the host of the Summer Olympics deciding to move it to the winter because it was believed the country's resources could be better used. Countries spend millions of dollars, call in ambassadors, favors, and pull resources to put these bids together. For Qatar to be able to move the World Cup to the winter, when that was never an option for other countries proves a large advantage for them. Other countries with the knowledge of this ability would have altered their bid, giving it more of a level playing ground. Furthermore, outside of FIFA, the issue arouse that of leagues playing in the winter, with the World Cup planned moved to November-December time frame. For many leagues this is right before their winter break. While that is not an issue, as most leagues take a three to four week break, players would need to be released by clubs three weeks before the World Cup for pre-tournament training. That means up to two months of playing for these players, plus the already clustered time of November and December matches needing to be rescheduled, from league matches, to cup matches, to UEFA matches, this would cause chaos within the leagues themselves. For more information please look at this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-fifa-champagne-idUSKCN0V51JO. Do you think that moving the World Cup to the winter is the right thing for the football community? Do you think it is fair to the other nations bidding for the World Cup for Qatar to be able to move the tournament to the winter? Comment below.
miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2016
World Cup 2021?
Since the 1930's, the FIFA World Cup Final has been held in the summer. It was seen as the time for players to be rewarded for amazing past few seasons and culminating in the biggest football tournament in the summer. Every four years (except during the World Wars) the World Cup was held in a host country that bid followed by nominated by voters to host the tournament. In 2010, Qatar was voted as the host of the 2022 World Cup Finals. It was a vote met by excitement for a World Cup to be hosted in such a small area, and outrage at a World Cup being hosted in a country with potentially 140 degrees (Fahrenheit). How could any player be expected to play in such extreme heats? Not only would games be mandated to have breaks every 15 minutes for the heat, but by the 60th minute, the game would be at a walking pace. Thus came Qatar's idea of moving the world cup from summer 2022, to the winter 2021, six months early. This created even more conflict. Not only was FIFA executives in support of this, it seemed as though they had been planning this move early on. Other countries who had been bidding for the right to host the tournament were angered by this. By Qatar being allowed to move the timing of the tournament, it was in essence Qatar bidding for a completely different tournament. While many voters were under the pretense that Qatar would be building technology to cool down the stadiums and surrounding areas (it was a major selling point in building cooling clouds over stadiums), Qatar and FIFA executives were planning on moving the World Cup to the winter. It would be similar to that of the host of the Summer Olympics deciding to move it to the winter because it was believed the country's resources could be better used. Countries spend millions of dollars, call in ambassadors, favors, and pull resources to put these bids together. For Qatar to be able to move the World Cup to the winter, when that was never an option for other countries proves a large advantage for them. Other countries with the knowledge of this ability would have altered their bid, giving it more of a level playing ground. Furthermore, outside of FIFA, the issue arouse that of leagues playing in the winter, with the World Cup planned moved to November-December time frame. For many leagues this is right before their winter break. While that is not an issue, as most leagues take a three to four week break, players would need to be released by clubs three weeks before the World Cup for pre-tournament training. That means up to two months of playing for these players, plus the already clustered time of November and December matches needing to be rescheduled, from league matches, to cup matches, to UEFA matches, this would cause chaos within the leagues themselves. For more information please look at this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-fifa-champagne-idUSKCN0V51JO. Do you think that moving the World Cup to the winter is the right thing for the football community? Do you think it is fair to the other nations bidding for the World Cup for Qatar to be able to move the tournament to the winter? Comment below.
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It's not a surprise that Qatar gets extremely hot in the summer time, and I don't think it was much of a surprise that the World Cup is normally played in the summer. This should have been taken into consideration prior to Qatar being given the bid. It seems as though they knew what they were getting themselves into and now want the whole soccer community to suffer the consequences. In my opinion moving the World Cup date just so a country could be able to host is quite ridiculous. They never should have even been considered for a bid. - Daniel Dzhurayev
ResponderEliminarIt's not a surprise that Qatar gets extremely hot in the summer time, and I don't think it was much of a surprise that the World Cup is normally played in the summer. This should have been taken into consideration prior to Qatar being given the bid. It seems as though they knew what they were getting themselves into and now want the whole soccer community to suffer the consequences. In my opinion moving the World Cup date just so a country could be able to host is quite ridiculous. They never should have even been considered for a bid. - Daniel Dzhurayev
ResponderEliminarThe whole situation is a mess. From where we stand now in 2016, unless the Qatar's bid to host the World Cup can be rescinded, I think that the best course of action would be to play the World Cup in the winter. While it is unconventional and a headache for the rest of the soccer world to schedule around, playing in extreme heat of the Qatar summer is a human rights issue. Not only for players, but for media, fans and anyone involved in putting on one of the greatest pieces of entertainment in the world. Quickly going back to what I noticed towards at the beginning, I think that other than moving the World Cup to the middle of the winter, the best option might be to rescind Qatar's host bid. FIFA could give the World Cup 2022 bid to a country like the united States, that would't require significant infrastructure upgrades and could certainly be accomplished in 6 years, or do something a bit unconventional and give the World Cup bid to the entire continent of Europe. That way, like the United States option, additional stadiums would not need to be built and where upgrades might be needed, they could certainly be accomplished in six years. Just trying to make lemonade out of lemons here, what do you think?
ResponderEliminarThe 2022 World Cup is shaping up to be one for the ages... in all of the wrong ways. Everything that has happened so far has been disastrous. First off, knowing that the World Cup is played in the summer, Qatar should have been automatically eliminated based on the extreme heat that is unplayable in. Secondly, the World Cup is meant to be played in the summer, not the winter. They won the bid for the summer. Just because the heat is so hot during the summer does not mean that the timing of the tournament can just be changed. This is just another example of how corrupt FIFA really is.
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