Was Qatar a wrong decision for 2022 World Cup?

[dirrty]

I am looking forward to seeing how many British football fans get arrested over there tbh.

exactly lol. don't know how they're gonna cope when they can't drink anywhere besides bars, restaurants and hotels. we'll be hearing of record number of brits in qatar prisons

[karter]

I agree with Inseriousity(soz Seriousity now ) in some way. China managed to host Olympic Games quite well.

[Eoin247]

Something you forgot to add that will be a major problem. Currently in Quatar it is against the law for any female to attend a football match.

Apart from that though, there is just so much wrong with Quatar getting to host it. Earlier posts have already pointed out most of what I had to say on this matter. Russia I have no problem with as they are fine candidates for it, even though many have said they aren't.

[karter]

Something you forgot to add that will be a major problem. Currently in Quatar it is against the law for any female to attend a football match.

Apart from that though, there is just so much wrong with Quatar getting to host it. Earlier posts have already pointed out most of what I had to say on this matter. Russia I have no problem with as they are fine candidates for it, even though many have said they aren't.

I was quite shocked when I saw this and later realised that Qatar is an Islamic country , even if Saudi Arabia hosts it , they wont allow women there.
And Russia , is quite deserving. People there are passionate about Football.Although they werent there this time , but they were fantastic in Euros 2008

[Grig]

I was quite shocked when I saw this and later realised that Qatar is an Islamic country , even if Saudi Arabia hosts it , they wont allow women there.
And Russia , is quite deserving. People there are passionate about Football.Although they werent there this time , but they were fantastic in Euros 2008

What do you mean not this time? People in Russia are not going to stand in -20 degree weather to listen to anything.

[karter]

What do you mean not this time? People in Russia are not going to stand in -20 degree weather to listen to anything.

By this time I meant in FIFA ' 10

[Grig]

By this time I meant in FIFA ' 10

yeh as I said, they are not going to go out in -20 degree weather to do anything. The Euro celebrations were during the summer .

[Jordy]

I did point the climate thing out

So you did, apologies.

I think everyone here has missed the point. The stadiums there will be state of the art and will have cooling systems/ air conditioning placed in them to sway away the climate problem. Essentially they are an extremely wealthy nation with the fact that the royal family will flood in plenty of money to make it happen. I think they are much better prepared for such an event than say South Africa was.

@Jordy: You argued over the fact that they are giving it to non-footballing nations. But what really is your definition to a 'footballing nation', one where there is a massive fan base or one where there is a world cup winning team? I must say, being Russian myself that Russia is extremely passionate about football. The top sport in Russia is football and if we win things, the nation celebrates.

Although I agree with the fact that the world cup in South Africa has not had a vast impact on the country. Sure, it's been modernized slightly and the infrastructure has improved, but in the long-run I don't think it's made any major impact on the economy.

I haven't looked into it much but you can't even use air conditioning in a car with a window open so I'm personally sceptical you could air condition a whole football stadium, it'd be virtually impossible unless it was all indoors.

I consider a footballing nation to be one where football is the main sport, the national team is successful or a lot of football is played at club level. Qatar does not slot into any of these categories.

[Grig]

So you did, apologies.

I haven't looked into it much but you can't even use air conditioning in a car with a window open so I'm personally sceptical you could air condition a whole football stadium, it'd be virtually impossible unless it was all indoors.

I consider a footballing nation to be one where football is the main sport, the national team is successful or a lot of football is played at club level. Qatar does not slot into any of these categories.

I don't know how they will do it, but they are defiantly doing a stadium cooling system, as that was one of their proposed things they said in their pitch. I actually think that it will be played indoors with the retractable roofs on, which will be interesting.

As for Qatar not being a football nation, I'll agree to that. I was simply arguing over your point that Russia wasn't, when it very much so is one in my view. As for South Africa, I think they lean more to rugby rather than football.

[matt$]

Air conditioned stadiums ftw