World Cup Hosts: Russia get 2018, Qatar get 2022

[Rainman]

look the referee

[RoTaRyBoYz]

Sheik Khalid Bin Hamad Al-Thani: Qatar is the future

Those guys are pumping serious money into the sports they love.. Kudos to them because we will all benefit from it

[kevcam]

^^

Qatar's temperature in the summer is usually 40 or above...

How on earth players gonna train/play in that

Qatar will stage a World Cup in and around Doha in a desert summer but promises state-of-the-art technology to cool fans and players alike.

The tournament would be held when temperatures in Qatar typically exceed 48 degrees C (118 degrees F). FIFA highlighted the potential risk posed by the heat.

Qatar, though, pointed out that World Cups in Mexico 1986 and United States 1994 also faced massive heat and both were big sporting successes.

Qatar is promising to spend $50 billion on infrastructure upgrades and $4 billion to build nine stadiums and renovate three others. No stadium would be more than an hour apart, while many would be dismantled and sections would be sent to poor nations.

[SimSimmer69]

A lot of ignorant statements here about Qatar. Qatar is going to lose plenty of money on this and are happy to do it. Just like Sheikh Mansour and Man City, it's not about profit but the prestige and enjoyment of hosting amazing football.

Arabs and most everyone else in the middle east LOVE football...this isn't about Qatar and its tiny population but the entire middle east

Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, these countries look nothing today like they did 15 years ago and you can bet in 12 more years things will be even more impressive.

And the violence talk can take a piss. Do you know the crime rate in much of Brazil? By this logic, South Africa certainly shouldn't hosted it either.
The hope is that the football mindset spreads through the region and people can unite for their love of the game.

[JoKeR1980]

steups...just steups...

[RASC]

[quote="RASC"

It was in the negatives some days in South Africa with frost on the pitch. No one had issue.
40 degrees should be the same. No issues. Great choice by FIFA Human's are adaptable. Should be great for countries that play in hotter climates

wait... we talkin celsius or farenheit? cuz man like me only dealin in centigrade

Celsius...they had the World Cup during winter in South Africa...

[RASC]

A lot of ignorant statements here about Qatar. Qatar is going to lose plenty of money on this and are happy to do it. Just like Sheikh Mansour and Man City, it's not about profit but the prestige and enjoyment of hosting amazing football.

Arabs and most everyone else in the middle east LOVE football...this isn't about Qatar and its tiny population but the entire middle east

Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, these countries look nothing today like they did 15 years ago and you can bet in 12 more years things will be even more impressive.

And the violence talk can take a piss. Do you know the crime rate in much of Brazil? By this logic, South Africa certainly shouldn't hosted it either.
The hope is that the football mindset spreads through the region and people can unite for their love of the game.

Next time you wanna quote from Soccernet.com...use the quotation function. Thanks.

[SmokeyGTi]

I actually heard that they gonna air-condition the stadiums!

oh yeah, and fack UK, how de rass you could be bidding for the world cup, then mere days before bad-talk Jack on national/international TV?

to make matters worse, two days ago during a football match there was a big riot...these dotish limeys an them sealed their fate with that one.

imagine england losing a match on home soil, ppl gonna get killed.

[JoKeR1980]

Russia Is The Worst Possible Choice
Posted 02/12/10 15:37EmailPrintSave



I was born in October 1967, one year, two months and five days after the end of the only World Cup held on these shores. I will be pushing 63 at least before football's greatest festival returns. Optimism had been ebbing away at least since the Mail on Sunday executives put sheet-sniffing ahead of their own personal morality but it was a bitter sensation when Sepp Blatter confirmed my fears with the word 'Russia'.

In the hour of agony it would be some consolation if it were possible to offer sincere congratulations to the victors, as would have been the case had the world champions been given, along with Portugal, the chance to stage the event. But Russia are at best a poor choice, at worst an appalling one.

A country with severe restrictions on press freedoms might seem like a good match for Fifa, given the criticisms of the messengers in the recent corruption claims. But this is a state where journalists who question the powerful are given crippling beatings or assassinated. And that may not be all. In the words of Sky News's website, the leaked American diplomatic cables say: "The leadership of Vladimir Putin has created a 'virtual mafia state', while top officials collect bribes 'like a personal taxation system'. The cables add that Russian spies use mafia bosses to carry out criminal acts, such as arms trafficking."

Sky's security editor, Sam Kiley, said: "One witness is quoted as having told American diplomats that he saw suitcases of money going in and out of the Kremlin and that nothing can happen in Moscow without the Kremlin's say so."

There are always arguments about whether money spent on sport could be better used elsewhere, but in Russia 14 per cent of the population live at or below the poverty line: 19.7 million people living on less than 5,198 roubles, $174, a month.

The figures in South Africa were far worse: 50 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Too little has been done since the end of apartheid to tackle this problem. Yet with staging a World Cup in South Africa, the intention at least was to give the ordinary people something to celebrate; with Russia it seems far more about gratifying an elite who have prospered beyond reason and avarice since the fall of the Soviet Union.

World Cups are about economics, and politics, but they are about football, too. An Iberian World Cup would be something to look forward to. But a third World Cup in a row, after South Africa and Brazil, will be staged in a large, expensive country, a decision that could only be made by people who are ferried around, first-class and five-star, who do not care about the people who make a tournament: the fans. And with Qatar to follow, it will not get much better until 2026 at the earliest. Projections on corporate income and ticket sales for Russia were among the lowest; if those forecasts come true then the world's largest country may find its people recalling the old proverb 'Be careful what you wish for'.

What I wished for when the announcement of England's bid was made was that the mistakes and the triumphs of the past would both be heeded. The disastrous bid for the 2006 World Cup was a handicap, with enemies made; on the other hand the landing of the 2012 Olympics was an advantage, with friends made.

With the involvement of Sebastian Coe and David Beckham, among others, the attempt to repeat the template of 2005 victory was clear. But the tussles within our disunited game, between the Premier League clubs with their narrow interests and the FA with its national obligations, prevented a naturally strong bid from taking a commanding early lead.

England's baggage was not confined to politicking. The root cause of the problem with the 2006 bid lay in the decay of the 70s and 80s, when the mayhem of club-level hooliganism culminated in the Heysel disaster and followers of the national team made themselves unwelcome wherever they went. This made an English bid for Euro 96 a problem; this led to an often-denied but accepted trade-off with Germany: support for '96 in exchange for a clear run at 2006.

Nor have England stood out for positive reasons on the pitch. This year's World Cup was seen as a key opportunity to lobby and show off, things made more difficult by the pointless intervention of the Mail on Sunday but that was also far harder to do against the background of Fabio Capello's side making such shocking and limited progress.

That is where the bid stood before the Sunday Times and the BBC set out to expose corruption, both in this process and that endemic in Fifa. After the defeat some will point the finger at those organisations but they are not responsible for the underlying problems nor should the media show Fifa fear or favour, something that sadly Andy Anson, the chief executive, and others at England 2018 ignored as they lashed out in recent days.

What next? Apparently I was wrong to suggest we could bid for 2026, but there is always 2030... 64 years after Bobby Moore lifted the trophy at the old Wembley; 34 years after Euro 96; 23 years after the new Wembley was finally opened. We have to keep hoping.

And, though I'll be off to Poland (with maybe a touch of Ukraine) in 2012 and France in 2016, I'll have to work out where I am going to watch the next two World Cups: I will not be travelling to a corrupt, expensive Russia in 2018 and, with the paying supporter disenfranchised by Fifa, Brazil 2014 looks more unappetising now.

More pressingly, though, the media need to abandon Triesman-like trivia and join the Sunday Times and the BBC in trying to cleanse Fifa. There were plenty of legitimate reasons to vote against England or for (some) other countries, but for those with illegitimate reasons for their actions, now or in the past, the story did not end when Blatter opened his mouth.


Philip Cornwall


http://www.football365.com/story/0,1703 ... 09,00.html

[RASC]

HAHAHA @ The Brisith Press complaining, when they themselves sank their own chances.

Please , England, you got the Olympics. Siddong over so and wait yuh turn till 2026!

[hydroep]

Good move. Give other suitable hosts a chance.

As regards the Qatar/Islamic State business that may be a good thing.

I'm sure it'll keep some of those hooligans in line.

As for the others who can't take it, they can always

[Swisha]

russia & qatar, nice!

these 2 oil money tourneys will be epic!

[Bizzare]

A lot of ignorant statements here about Qatar. Qatar is going to lose plenty of money on this and are happy to do it. Just like Sheikh Mansour and Man City, it's not about profit but the prestige and enjoyment of hosting amazing football.

Arabs and most everyone else in the middle east LOVE football...this isn't about Qatar and its tiny population but the entire middle east

Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, these countries look nothing today like they did 15 years ago and you can bet in 12 more years things will be even more impressive.

And the violence talk can take a piss. Do you know the crime rate in much of Brazil? By this logic, South Africa certainly shouldn't hosted it either.
The hope is that the football mindset spreads through the region and people can unite for their love of the game.

Next time you wanna quote from Soccernet.com...use the quotation function. Thanks.

Look Makeout yes...

[kevcam]

Zidane collect a cool 15m for his part.

[Mark!]

1 concern. does Russia and Qatar have any annoying native horns we should worry about?

[RASC]

1 concern. does Russia and Qatar have any annoying native horns we should worry about?

If you hadda ask that, it means you really don't watch that much football

[Mark!]

1 concern. does Russia and Qatar have any annoying native horns we should worry about?

If you hadda ask that, it means you really don't watch that much football

ok