This last Thursday December 2, FIFA announced the two countries that will host the World Cups on 2018 and 2022. The two countries are Russia for 2018 and Qatar for 2022.
For 2018, Russia beat countries like Spain and Portugal, which had plans of sharing the tournament. The Nederlands and Belgium also with the same ideas of splitting the games in their stadiums, Russia and the ones that everyone thought were going to get it England. England had been losing the chance to host the tournament since 2002 when they lost to Germany that hosted the tournament on 2006.
Qatar, the country no one thought had a chance to win it. The reason is that there were countries with a lot of financial facilities like Japan, USA, South Korea and Australia. Japan, South Korea and Australia lost on the first and second rounds. The final battle was Qatar and USA, and everyone including me thought that the FIFA World Cup on 2022 was going to be in USA since Qatar had or has to build all the stadiums, and the USA had them all already built. At the end Qatar was announced to be the country that will host the tournament on 2022. A lot of people were shocked by that.
Personally I don’t mind that Russia and Qatar got the chance to host the tournament. A little disappointment because USA did not get it and were very close to get the chance. For the arguments that FIFA told the press is that they want the tournament in countries that have never hosted the tournament before. Which makes sense if that is the purpose of giving it to those countries that can and have the financial possibilities. I am happier for Qatar because it will be the first Middle East country hosting the tournament. The temperatures in Qatar are going to be very, very high so that will be a problem. if I had the decision in my hands I would have given it to USA. But it was not in my hands all we can do is support the plan.
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