There’s extra to the story of the 2022 World Cup than hat methods and nook kicks.
The subtext of main sporting occasions, as ever, is the typically pungent enterprise of bringing these occasions to the stadiums and screens — and within the case of this 12 months’s event hosted by the oil-rich Arab nation of Qatar, the problematic components are a extra dominant a part of the dialog.
Let’s attempt to reply a few of the questions swirling across the World Cup past the sphere:
Q: There’s been a robust backlash to the World Cup being performed in Qatar. What’s occurring?
A: The place to begin? How about with the choice to award the World Cup to Qatar within the first place, which has been dogged for years by allegations of corruption? The Division of Justice stated final 12 months that Qatar bribed FIFA officers to safe the internet hosting rights.
Q: LIV Golf has been referred to as a “sportswashing” train. Why are we listening to that phrase once more?
A: Having the joy of the World Cup in Qatar can serve to burnish the worldwide fame and camouflage the evils of a repressive regime. Girls’s rights are restricted within the Muslim nation and homosexual rights are nonexistent — homosexuality is prohibited in Qatar. Human rights teams have criticized the nation’s remedy of its huge drive of South Asian migrant employees, who're stated to labor in excessive warmth for little or long-delayed pay. Qatar constructed seven new stadiums, about 100 new resorts and expanded transit infrastructure for the World Cup. The Guardian reported in 2021 that a minimum of 6,500 migrant employees had died in Qatar within the 10 years because it secured the World Cup.
Q: Will there be protests?
A: Keep tuned. These will vary from gestures or overt statements from the groups to acts of protest from the visiting public. The U.S. staff adopted a rainbow-colored crest for its coaching periods in assist of LBGTQ+ rights. Members of a number of European groups and Staff Australia have spoken out in opposition to the Qatari regime and the discomfort of taking part in there.
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Q: Isn’t the World Cup often in the summertime? Why is that this one beginning in November?
A: Nicely, it’s face-meltingly scorching within the desert in the summertime months. Versus this time of 12 months, when it’s simply common scorching. Nobody needed to see Lionel Messi collapse from warmth stroke, so organizers moved the event to the northern hemisphere’s late fall for the primary time.
Q: However that’s not an ideal answer. What are the fears with this revised schedule?
A: In brief: accidents. The European leagues the place most of the World Cup gamers — and all of its star points of interest — have their day jobs are in the course of their seasons. Meaning gamers are being requested to jet into intense worldwide play with out something resembling a relaxation. Already a number of prime gamers have been compelled out of the World Cup attributable to harm, and we might see greater than the usual spate of accidents happen because the event goes on.
Q: Phew, so what's there to stay up for for the 2026 World Cup?
A: It’s coming to North America! The 2026 World Cup might be collectively hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico in 16 cities — together with New York — throughout the continent.
And beginning in 2026, the sphere will increase to 48 groups, which suggests simpler qualifying and extra early-round blowouts. That is the final version of the event (for now) with a tidy subject of 32 groups.
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