FIFA World Cup 2022 Is Finally Taking Place In Qatar
The FIFA World Cup 2022 is finally taking place in Qatar, and it is one of the most contentious and contested FIFA tournaments to date.
The FIFA World Cup is finally taking place in Qatar as this has been planned for the past 12 years.
A number of scandals have clouded the creation of the first championship to be staged in a Muslim nation in the Middle East.
However, Fifa has urged all 32 participating teams to “concentrate on the football,” Competition hosts Qatar faced Ecuador in the opening match at Al Bayt Stadium yesterday.
The countries involved that have made it into the tournament are part of the same group and will play today, with England taking on Iran before Wales taking on the United States.
Among the most discussed topic and contentious World Cups in sports will be in Qatar in 2022.
The Gulf nation won the right to host the competition after competing against proposals from South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the United States. However, there were claims of extensive fraud in the selection procedure, which Qatar has consistently rejected.
It was reported in February 2021 that 6,500 migrant workers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka had perished in Qatar since it was awarded the World Cup bidding.
The amount is derived from information given by the embassies of the nations in Qatar.
The Qatari government, nonetheless, claimed that the figure was inaccurate since not all of the fatalities reported were workers engaged in World Cup-related activity. Only three of the 37 deaths of workers at World Cup stadium building venue between 2014 and 2020, according to the state’s data collected, were “work-related.”
The International Labour Organization (ILO) stated that this was an understatement.
Given Qatar’s strict devotion to Sharia Law and the fact that homosexual behaviour is against the law there, there have been concerns about how LGBT fans might plan to be handled there.
“Progress has been slow,” according to the organisations talking to Fifa about the event, and problems of concern are still present.
In an effort to avoid the event, UK Pride groups have urged bars and other public spaces to stop showing World Cup games.
At a media briefing in Doha on Thursday, England goalkeeper Conor Coady said, “We’re not politicians.” So he asked them to use their position to voice out the difficulties in the country. Players have been urged to utilise their platform to do this.
The Everton defender continued, “We’ll never be politicians in terms of the way we look at things but, in terms of what the squad has done over the last few years and how much they’ve helped people, that comes with the territory.”
Sepp Blatter, who served as Fifa’s chairman and made the choice to grant Qatar the event in 2010, claimed this week that the choice was the wrong one.
The day prior to the competition, Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, called Western media coverage of Qatar’s record on human rights “hypocritical.”
At a media briefing in Doha, Infantino delivered an unusual monologue during which he vehemently defended Qatar and the event for an hour.
The event was shifted to a “winter” slot for the very first time because summer temperatures there frequently surpass 50C, despite it remaining a comfortable 32C throughout the day and 22C at night.
Due to this, the first game in each European league was played just one week after the final Premier League contest between Fulham and Manchester United.
The South American confederation Conmebol requested that the tournament begin one day earlier than scheduled, and the Fifa council granted their petition three months before the scheduled start date.
Two days prior to the event, organisers made the announcement that alcohol would not be allowed inside any of the eight venues or in the area around them.
The duration of this World Cup, from 20 November to 18 December, will be the smallest since Argentina 1978 at 29 days.
That implies administrators were required to organize four matches most days even during the group phase and there is no rest period between both the groups and the knockout phases, with the last 16 commencing the day following the group stages complete.
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