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FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™­

Eleven years after Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 edition of the FIFA World Cup™, the countdown to the tournament has entered its final year – with many milestone moments reached during 2021.

Countdown clock unveiled­

On 21 November 2021, the one-year-to-go anniversary until the start of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 was marked with a special ceremony in Qatar. The tournament will be like no other, and the spectacular ceremony on the Corniche waterfront across from the West Bay skyline gave a taste of the spectacular event to come.

Football fans worldwide were also invited to “Join the Beat” virtually and celebrate the milestone, as the official countdown clock, powered by Hublot, was revealed. The 30-minute launch ceremony also featured a drone show, special guests and other surprises, ramping up the anticipation as the first FIFA World Cup to be held in the Middle East and Arab world emerges over the horizon.

Speaking at the event, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said:

“I’ve been involved in the organisation of sports events for the past few decades, and I’ve never witnessed anything like what is happening here. Everything is ready, the venues will be fantastic. The experience for the fans will be great.”

“The world will discover a country and a whole region. Qatar, the Gulf region, the Middle East, the Arab world. A place where people meet and come together. This is what football is all about, this is about what this part of the world and its culture is all about, and the world will realise that."

“This is a unique and special moment for Qatar as the host country. After 11 years of hard work and lasting progress, we are well on the way towards delivering the first World Cup in our region, one that will leave a profound legacy for Qatar, the region and the entire world.”

Three more stadiums inaugurated­

The stunning Al Bayt Stadium – which will host the first match of the FIFA World Cup 2022 – was unveiled on the opening day of the FIFA Arab Cup. The 60,000-capacity venue, which was designed to resemble the tents formerly used by nomadic people in the Gulf region, hosted Qatar’s 1-0 victory against Bahrain as the 16-team tournament got off to an exciting start.

Straight after Al Bayt’s inauguration, Stadium 974 also hosted its first game. The arena, which is made primarily from shipping containers and can seat 40,000, staged the United Arab Emirates’ 2-1 victory against Syria. Stadium 974 was named after the number of shipping containers used in its construction. It is also Qatar’s international dialling code.

“ The world will discover a country and a whole region. Qatar, the Gulf region, the Middle East, the Arab world. A place where people meet and come together. ”

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said: “Al Bayt is the house where everyone is uniting, where everyone is coming together. It is a symbol for what the World Cup represents. The Arab Cup represents today what the World Cup will represent next year of people coming together, of people being united from all over the world. So, to have games in such a beautiful stadium, in such a symbolic stadium, is something that we have to cherish and that will be crucial for the success of the World Cup.”

In October 2021, another FIFA World Cup milestone was reached as Al Thumama Stadium became the sixth tournament-ready venue to be inaugurated when it hosted the Amir Cup final, which was won by Al Sadd. The stadium followed Khalifa International, Al Janoub, Education City, Ahmad Bin Ali and Al Bayt in being declared ready to host matches during the 22ⁿᵈ edition of the FIFA World Cup.

This leaves just one FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 venue to be inaugurated – Lusail Stadium. The main construction work was completed in 2021 and the stadium was due to open its doors to the public in early 2022.

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The World Cup That Changed Everything

The decision to take the World Cup to Qatar has upturned a small nation, battered the reputation of global soccer’s governing body and altered the fabric of the sport.

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By Tariq Panja and Rory Smith

Tariq Panja was present in 2010 when Qatar was picked to host the 2022 World Cup. This article is drawn from hundreds of interviews he and Rory Smith have conducted on its victory and the consequences for soccer.

• Published Nov. 19, 2022 Updated Dec. 18, 2022

Michel Platini was expecting a private audience with the president of France when he arrived for lunch on a cold day in November 2010. Instead, as Platini, a legendary French player who in retirement had risen to become one of the most powerful men in soccer, stepped into a lavish salon inside the president’s official residence, he noticed immediately that the man he had come to see, Nicolas Sarkozy, was absent.

Instead, Platini was directed toward a small group chatting across the room, and to a conversation that would alter the course of his career, stain his reputation, and forever change the sport to which he had dedicated his life.

Platini smiled as he was formally introduced to the lunch’s guests of honor: Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who would, within a few years, replace his father as the country’s absolute ruler. The Qataris had come to Paris to discuss a plan that bordered on the fantastical: Their tiny, impossibly wealthy Gulf state wanted to host the World Cup.

Platini, a vice president of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, had long been cool to the idea. A year earlier, he had told friends that he believed allowing Qatar — a country without any meaningful soccer tradition, one lacking basic infrastructure like stadiums — to stage the biggest sporting event in the world would prove disastrous for FIFA. Only two months previously, he had confided to a rival United States bid that he wanted the 2022 tournament to go “anywhere but Qatar.”

At some point that afternoon, though, Platini’s reservations melted away. What happened to change his mind over lunch with a late-arriving Sarkozy and the two Qataris remains, more than a decade later, resolutely obscure and fiercely contested. Platini himself has offered at least two distinct versions of events — in both he said his vote was his own choice, and not reflective of outside influence — and in 2019 he was detained, but not charged , by French investigators said to be looking into the meeting.

By then, though, the deal was done: A week after the lunch, inside a cavernous conference hall in Zurich, Qatar was confirmed as the host of the 2022 World Cup.

The world’s most popular sport has been reckoning with the consequences of that decision ever since.

American investigators and FIFA itself have since said multiple FIFA board members accepted bribes to swing the vote to Qatar. (Platini was not among them.) A broad corruption investigation into how FIFA conducts business led to dozens of arrests. Those cases and others helped bring down the entire leadership of FIFA, and almost toppled the institution itself.

But the decision also irrevocably altered the economics of top-flight soccer. Having won the World Cup, Qatar quickly moved to establish itself as a true power in the sport. Within a year of the lunch at the Élysée Palace, Qatari interests had bought the French team Paris St.-Germain, and a Qatari-owned sports network had begun pouring money into European soccer by buying up broadcasting rights. That influx of cash not only affected what top players earned and where they played: It also briefly threatened to drive an irreconcilable wedge between a handful of the sport’s richest teams and the rest of the game .

Persian Gulf

At the same time, it inspired a frenzy of construction as a tiny Gulf country was, in effect, remade in a stunning nation-building project that, according to human rights groups , cost thousands of migrant workers their lives, a figure Qatar rejects.

And now, with long-feared cultural disputes playing out , it has arrived at a point that once seemed unthinkable: hundreds of the world’s finest soccer players and more than a million fans gathering in a thumb-shaped peninsula in the Persian Gulf, ready for the tournament that changed the game.

The Bid That Broke FIFA

For much of the 20th century, Qatar was a barren Persian Gulf backwater better known for pearl diving than power politics. Its people were poor, lagging far behind their Saudi neighbors .

Then Qatar struck gas.

The discovery in 1971 of the world’s largest gas field led to the first transformation of Qatar: turning it into one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and emboldening its leaders to see their nation not just as an appendage of its wealthier neighbors, but as a true geopolitical rival. The quest to host the World Cup, then, was just another step: the chance to announce themselves, to tell their story, on a truly global stage.

Qatar has for years rejected criticisms of its effort to win the World Cup as jealousy or, worse, Western racism. But having the money and the ambition to host the tournament was one thing. Winning the right to do so was quite another. And in 2010, that was Qatar’s biggest problem.

A week or so before the two dozen members of FIFA’s executive committee — including Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, and Platini — were scheduled to decide which of the five competing bids would win the right to host the 2022 World Cup, Harold Mayne-Nicholls landed in Zurich.

A suave, soccer-obsessed Chilean, Mayne-Nicholls wielded considerable power, at least in theory. He had led the inspection team dispatched by FIFA to assess each of the bidders, and the evaluation reports his team created had the potential to swing the vote.

His verdict on Qatar — the product of a three-day visit to Doha in September 2009 — was hardly a resounding endorsement. While the country had scaled back on some of its initial plans, which included building an artificial island big enough to be seen from space, the inspectors still harbored seemingly insurmountable doubts.

No. 1: Qatar was too small. “It was a huge problem for organization,” Mayne-Nicholls said. And No. 2: In the (Northern Hemisphere) summer, the traditional window for playing the World Cup, it was simply too hot.

Qatar had gamely tried to assuage those concerns by building a small stadium to demonstrate the futuristic air-conditioning system it said would ensure all of the games would be played in close to ideal conditions. Mayne-Nicholls was impressed, but the issue remained.

“The problem would be for supporters on nongame days,” he said. It is 38 or 40 degrees Celsius in June, he said, or more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. “It is impossible to do anything on the street.”

Even the Qataris believed his verdict was a crushing blow. One official who worked on Qatar’s bid admitted the evaluation report was “embarrassing.”

The more Mayne-Nicholls talked to the various administrators and plutocrats on the FIFA board, though, the more he was struck by how little his presentation had done to diminish support for Qatar among the men who held votes. Only one, he said, had asked to see the full reports. Most seemed to have made up their minds.

“They were telling me that the Qataris were coming really strongly,” he said. “They were the ones that voted. I immediately realized that Qatar would win.”

He was not the only one. On the eve of the vote, a consultant with Qatar’s bid recalled turning to a senior Qatari bid official and asking how things looked. He was shocked by the certainty of the response: “It’s done.”

He was right. Even before Blatter opened the envelope to confirm that the Middle East would host the World Cup for the first time, Al Jazeera, the news network based in Doha, had broadcast news of Qatar’s victory.

The fallout, though, was just beginning. Two members of the committee had not even been permitted to vote, having been suspended after being recorded by undercover reporters trying to sell their ballots.

More accusations of corruption and bribery followed. The United States Department of Justice accused three South American voters of accepting seven-figure bribes to select Qatar. Within a few years, in fact, almost every one of the 22 members of the committee who had participated in the vote had been accused of or charged with corruption. Dozens of other executives had been arrested. Most were forced out of FIFA, and several were barred from soccer altogether.

Even those at the very top of the rotten pyramid had not escaped. Blatter grudgingly announced he would resign , then was banned anyway. Platini was forced out, too, over an unrelated ethics charge that led to a fraud trial in Switzerland . (He and Blatter were both acquitted.) For a while, it seemed as if FIFA itself might not survive a decision of its own making.

Building on Sand

Qatar’s leaders had been expecting the questions.

As the country fine-tuned its bid for the World Cup, its representatives spent hours in media training sessions with public-relations consultants drafted in from Europe, trying to craft responses to potentially awkward inquiries about the country’s treatment of migrant workers and its attitude toward gay rights.

It was uneasy ground for even the most senior officials, given that homosexuality was, and is, illegal in Qatar. In one media training session viewed by The New York Times, Sheikh Mohammed, the youngest son of the country’s ruler at the time, replied to a mock question on the subject by insisting that all visitors to the country would be welcomed.

When a media trainer responded by pointing out that a journalist might follow up by asking how that can be squared with laws that criminalize homosexuality, the prince responded, “It’s illegal in most countries.” Uncertain, his eyes darted from side to side. “Isn’t it?”

Confronted at a different point about the country’s treatment of migrant workers, he insisted that Qatar “has already taken the necessary steps” to protect them. “Everybody respects the migrant workers here,” he said.

As it turned out, all the preparation was in vain. The questions never came. Instead, the news media’s focus during the bidding was on the country’s size, its searing summer temperatures and — largely — if beer would be available in the Muslim nation during the tournament.

“I sat in on so many interviews, and nobody would ask,” said Phaedra al-Majid, a former media adviser to the bid who later accused Qatar of breaking ethical rules to secure the tournament. It hardly mattered. “No one believed Qatar was going to win.”

It was only after it had secured the tournament that the difficult questions came. And they have not stopped.

Qatar’s vision for the World Cup did not just require the building of seven stadiums and the refurbishment of an eighth. The country also needed an entire network of roads and rails to transport fans between the arenas and dozens upon dozens of hotels to house them — nothing less than an entirely redrawn country, rising from the sand in a $220 billion nation-building project.

To achieve it, Qatar recruited hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from some of the poorest corners of the planet, swelling the country’s population — which grew by 13.2 percent in the last year alone — and drawing intense focus on the laborers’ treatment, their rights and their living conditions .

How many have died over the last decade or more is not known, and may never be. Many thousands more have returned home sick or injured or deprived of the pay they were promised.

“This event was entirely built on the backs of migrant workers, on a completely unequal balance of power,” said Michael Page, deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch. “These were very predictable abuses.”

Though Qatar has now — at FIFA’s behest — halted most construction projects and sent home most of the workers before the World Cup starts, it remains reliant on imported labor: Security professionals from Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and France, among other countries, have been imported to bolster an overmatched local police force. A new wave of migrant workers has arrived, meanwhile, to staff the hotels, man the stadiums and serve the food.

The country’s small size, though, has done nothing to contain its ambition. This summer, for example, Qatar announced that as part of the World Cup it would hold a dance music festival at Ras Abu Fontas, just south of Doha, featuring a fire-breathing, laser-shooting spider borrowed from the Glastonbury music festival in England.

“In the few months before a tournament, most countries are scaling down,” said Ronan Evain, a director of Football Supporters Europe. “Qatar has just kept scaling up.”

The aim, organizers say, is to ensure an unparalleled fan experience. It will certainly be a different one: Qatar shocked FIFA and fans alike on Friday by deciding, only days before the tournament’s opening match, to go back on its promise to allow the sale of beer at its eight World Cup stadiums. It will still be available in certain World Cup areas, including for several dedicated hours a day in fan zones, but there was no denying Friday that the hosts had, belatedly, reset the tournament’s traditions to satisfy local rules.

The about-face raised new questions about whether everyone — particularly LGBTQ+ fans — will face the kind of welcome that Qatar’s organizing committee and FIFA have consistently guaranteed.

This month, Khalid Salman, a former Qatari national team player now deployed as an ambassador for the World Cup, did not seem to have heard the organizers’ messaging . “Homosexuality is haram here,” he told a German documentary, using an Arabic word that roughly translates as forbidden. “It is haram because it is damage in the mind.”

Game Changer

Javier Tebas was furious. The outspoken president of Spain’s top league had arrived in Doha along with representatives from the most powerful bodies in soccer: FIFA; the rest of the game’s major leagues; and the European Club Association, an organization that represents the interests of the teams themselves.

Their task was to answer a question that nobody had ever needed to ask: When, exactly, should the World Cup be held?

In the run-up to the vote in Zurich, and for several years afterward, Qatar had insisted there was no reason the tournament could not be held in its traditional window in the European summer. The searing Gulf heat, the organizers insisted, would not be a problem, because of plans to outfit each stadium with the air-conditioning system that had impressed Mayne-Nicholls and his team.

By 2013, though, the mood had changed. A FIFA task force was established to examine the feasibility of moving the World Cup. In early 2015 it reported back, recommending shifting the competition to November and December, directly in the middle of the European season that drives much of the interest, and the money, in the game.

As he arrived in Doha for talks on the topic that year, Tebas assumed the battle lines were drawn: The leagues and the clubs “were against the dates” FIFA was proposing, Tebas said. That unanimity did not last, though. The clubs acquiesced after FIFA increased the payments they would get for releasing players for the tournament. Tebas recalled banging his hands on the table in frustration when he was told. “It was all for show,” he said. “It felt like we were being tricked.”

In many ways, though, Europe’s unwanted hiatus is the least of the consequences of FIFA’s decision to hand Qatar the World Cup. A brief interruption to a single season, after all, is far less significant than a yearslong shift in the game’s landscape.

It was not only the fate of the World Cup that was under discussion at that meeting of Platini, Sarkozy and the Qatari delegation at the Élysée Palace in November 2010. So, too, was the future of Paris St.-Germain, the club Sarkozy supported. (Its president at the time, Sébastien Bazin, was also present in Sarkozy’s office that day.) Qatar wanted not only to buy the team, but to establish a sports broadcaster to show its games, and to bankroll the rest of French soccer. Less than a year later, it was doing just that.

Backed by Qatar Sports Investments’ seemingly bottomless funds, P.S.G. began a lavish spending spree that no domestic rival could even consider , acquiring star after star as it looked to overtake Europe’s traditional powers. The moves, individually and in the aggregate, would have a profound and lasting impact on European soccer.

In the summer of 2017, P.S.G. flexed its financial muscles in the boldest way yet: It signed Neymar , the Brazilian forward, from Barcelona at a cost of $222 million, doubling the previous world transfer record, and then a few weeks later added the French striker Kylian Mbappé for $180 million more. The two deals, at a stroke, shifted the global transfer market for good.

But Qatar was not finished. Its television network, beIN Sports, soon became the most voracious collector of sports media rights in the world, part of an expansion to Europe that was also agreed at the Élysée meeting. BeIN’s powerful chief executive, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is also the president of P.S.G.

He also has a seat on the board of European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, and last year he became head of the European Club Association as well. He inherited that post in the aftermath of the abortive start of the European Super League , a supposed alternative to the Champions League concocted by several of the most famous clubs in soccer.

Executives involved with the plan claimed their rationale was to save the sport; in reality, at least a part of the motivation was to try to clip the wings of P.S.G. and Manchester City, the deep-pocketed English team owned by a group closely linked to the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. The two clubs’ spending, their rivals said, has distorted soccer beyond recognition, placing any club that tried to keep pace at risk of implosion.

For evidence of that, they need point to the only team that tried. Barcelona, stung by the loss of Neymar, quickly found itself trapped in an inflationary spiral. By 2021, its financial distress was such that it could no longer afford to keep paying Lionel Messi, the finest player in its history. He bade farewell to the only club he had known in a tear-stained news conference. A few minutes later, he was photographed at an airport in Barcelona. His destination, of course, was P.S.G.

The Show Must Go On

A few weeks before the World Cup, Gianni Infantino, Blatter’s successor as FIFA president, wrote to each of the 32 nations that had qualified for the tournament. Now a resident of Qatar, Infantino urged all of them “not to let football be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists.”

It was time, he said, to let the sport “take the stage.”

It may be too late for that. As the tournament neared, the criticism of FIFA’s decision to take it to Qatar only grew more pointed. An expanding list of current players, former players, coaches, sportswear manufacturers and, in particular, fans have been vocal in their opposition. The captains of England and Wales have agreed to wear a special armband promoting gay rights. Blatter, as recently as this month, admitted the choice of Qatar was a “ mistake .”

Qatar’s response, in turn, has been to become steadily more indignant. The country’s emir — present, as crown prince, at the meeting at the Elysée with Platini — lashed out last month at what he described as an “unprecedented” campaign of criticism from the West. Qatar’s foreign minister, two weeks ago, labeled the questions over its suitability to host the tournament “ very racist .”

FIFA has not always been so opposed to the idea of using soccer for ideological purposes. Even after all of the investigations, the warrants and the arrests, FIFA as an institution has always justified its decision to go to Qatar by insisting that the sport can be an agent for progress.

As the tournament that the host country was willing to pay almost any price to obtain gets underway, though, and as the eyes of the world turn to a tiny corner of the Gulf, it is hard not to feel it is the other way around: Soccer may or may not change Qatar, but Qatar has changed soccer forever.

Tariq Panja covers some of the darker corners of the global sports industry. He is also a co-author of “Football’s Secret Trade,” an exposé on soccer’s multibillion-dollar player trading industry. More about Tariq Panja

Rory Smith is The Times’s chief soccer correspondent, based in Britain. He covers all aspects of European soccer and has reported from three World Cups, the Olympics, and numerous European tournaments. More about Rory Smith

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But in his 2022 book Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth, British social anthropologist John McManus quotes a French breeder who once told him: “In Qatar, there are no regulations, it’s open season.”

When McManus asks a Qatari who has taken him out for a day’s hunting if it is legal to buy wild birds, the answer is “sometimes it’s illegal”.

No regulations, open season, sometimes illegal… it sounds a bit like the hunt that world football’s governing body FIFA put on for the right to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, doesn’t it?

Read more: World Cup 2022 prize money: What payout will France or Argentina receive for winning in Qatar?

For those of you who have just emerged from a 12-year stint in solitary confinement, Qatar beat bids from Australia , Japan , South Korea and the United States to win the right to stage this year’s World Cup at a vote in Zurich in December 2010, and its team plays Ecuador in the opening game on Sunday.

The fact Qatar won the vote does not necessarily mean its bid was dodgy. It was a flawed contest, with inconsistent rules, run by a corrupted organisation. Blaming the participants for a liberal interpretation of what was and was not allowed is like criticising Squid Game contestants for being a bit selfish.

However, ever since ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter pulled Qatar’s card from his envelope, the Gulf state’s triumph has been picked apart by aggrieved rivals, human rights campaigners, law enforcement agencies and the international media.

It was also a controversial choice for the reasons outlined here — but Qatar has held on. It has resisted calls for the tournament to be reallocated or shared. It came through a FIFA-financed independent investigation relatively unscathed. No smoking guns were found when the Feds went in. It refused to buckle when its neighbours tried to crash the Qatari economy. And, while scandal after scandal has taken down key actors elsewhere, Qatar’s show goes on.

So, how did they win the bid?

Let us start with some universally agreed facts.

For decades, World Cups were awarded one at a time, usually six or seven years before the tournament to give the hosts time to prepare. Since the 1960s, the decision was made by FIFA’s executive committee (ExCo), as former FIFA president Sir Stanley Rous thought the awarding of World Cups was too contentious for the wider membership.

Blatter, who joined FIFA shortly after Rous was bundled into retirement by Brazilian businessman, lawyer and former Olympic swimmer Joao Havelange in 1974, agreed with the Englishman on the need to reserve this decision for the ExCo — a select group of the FIFA president, vice-presidents and committee members — but he went further. In 2008, it was decided FIFA could award two World Cups in one sitting.

The official rationale was that this would give FIFA a stronger hand in negotiations with broadcasters and sponsors, as it would have more inventory and a longer relationship to sell to prospective partners. A more cynical view was that two bidding contests at once would mean twice as many backhanders. We could not possibly comment.

Either way, FIFA was not short of options for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. In 2007, the governing body had dropped its policy of rotating the World Cup between its six confederations — Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, Oceania and South America — and replaced it with a rule that stated if your confederation hosted a World Cup, it could not bid for the next two editions.

As Africa (South Africa) and South America (Brazil) had won the right to stage the 2010 and 2014 tournaments, this left the stage clear for bids from the other four confederations. It initially looked like FIFA might get 11 bids from 13 countries (there were two joint bids from Europe) but bids from Indonesia and Mexico never really got off the ground.

That left nine: Belgium/Netherlands, England , Spain/Portugal, Russia , South Korea, Qatar, Australia, Japan and the United States. Seven of them were going for either 2018 or 2022, with Qatar and South Korea only bidding for 2022. But within six months of the race starting, all non-European bids for 2018 dropped out to focus on 2022, with the European bids going the other way.

The other indisputable detail to remember is that eight of the nine bids had compatriots on the ExCo — a person representing their national football associations who sat at FIFA’s high table. England , for example, had Geoff Thompson; the US had Chuck Blazer, a shameless crook who would eventually become the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s inside man on ExCo. Only Australia lacked one. The upshot of all this was to make the possibility of vote-trading between the bids a racing certainty.

After the nine bids had officially committed to the process in March 2009, the next key date was December 2009 when the “football family” gathered in Cape Town for the 2010 World Cup draw and the international launch of the 2018 and 2022 bids. After that, the bids had to finalise plans by May 2010, with FIFA’s technical assessment team visiting each bid between July and September. And the finish line was the final presentations and votes at FIFA’s Zurich HQ across December 1-2.

Unfortunately, not all 24 members of the ExCo made it that far. Nigeria’s Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii of Tahiti were banned from taking part by FIFA’s ethics committee — no, seriously — after they tried to sell their votes to undercover reporters from The Sunday Times posing as consultants for the US bid. This reduced the electorate to 22.

In terms of indisputable facts, we are probably only left with the results of the votes. FIFA used an “exhaustive balloting” procedure, which means its voters went to the booth one round at a time. The secret voting continued until one bid had a majority, 12 votes or more, with the worst-performing bid in each round eliminated.

Just as the decision to run two processes at once and then split them into two groups had created the perfect conditions for collusion, the exhaustive balloting method added the prospect of strategic voting to the mix.

For example, in the first round of the 2018 process, Russia won nine votes, Spain/Portugal seven, Belgium /Holland four and England two. No majority, England out. But in the second round, Russia got a winning total of 13, Spain / Portugal seven and Belgium/Holland two, which means the latter’s support halved and two voters in the first round backed a bid they did not believe was the best available.

It was the same story in the 2022 vote, where Qatar’s vote totals went 11, 10, 11 and, finally, 14, to beat the US’s eight in the fourth round. But the fact their support went from 11 to 10 in the second round suggests one voter was not adhering to the spirit of the occasion. Japan’s total also fell from three in the first round to two in the second.

Despite the flaws in the process, Qatar’s bid beat America’s 14-8 and everyone went home satisfied that democracy had been done.

A little later, 15 of the 22 voters were either banned or suspended by FIFA, investigated by domestic law enforcement agencies, named in indictments or pleaded guilty to years of corruption, but none of that was ever directly linked to Qatar’s triumph.

Only Jacques Anouma (Ivory Coast), Senes Erzik (Turkey), Michel D’Hooghe (Belgium), Marios Lefharitis (Cyprus), Junji Ogura (Japan), Hany Abo Rida (Egypt) and Geoff Thompson (England) were not banned by football’s world governing body. Earlier this year, Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) had a one-year suspension by FIFA overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

So no more was ever said about any of it ever again, right?

Fooled you? No, I suspect not.

OK, how did they really win it, then? To answer that we have to move from agreed facts to contested claims, and there are so many of those it is hard to know where to start.

But it should also be stated that as far as the Qataris are concerned, the story really is that simple.

They would say they turned the perceived weaknesses in their bid — Qatar’s cramped dimensions, the amount it had to build and its lack of football pedigree — into virtues by stressing that theirs would be a “compact” tournament, played in state-of-the-art stadiums, connected by gleaming transport infrastructure, and this would be a World Cup of firsts and new horizons.

And while some of you will be rolling your eyes, it is another undisputed fact that most of the voters did not pay any attention to the “high risk” technical assessment Qatar was given — by far the worst among the nine bidders. Each bidding nation is assessed by FIFA for three things: “bid compliance”, an overall risk assessment and a technical evaluation.

Some, however, did respond favourably to Qatar’s “vision”.

The best expression of that came in the speech Sheikha Mozah, the emir’s wife, made in Zurich the day before the vote. “When do you think is the right time for this to come to the Middle East?” she asked. “Well, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. The time is now.”

It was a good speech but former US Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller, who was part of the US bid delegation in Zurich, does not buy the idea that any ExCo minds were changed by the final presentation.

“(The voters) just had to have a story they could tell to account for the real reasons, the over and under the table vote-buying that was going on,” Miller tells The Athletic .

Bonita Mersiades, the Australian bid’s former head of communications, agrees.

“We attempted to play the bidding game the same way as Qatar, but not as strategically, not with pockets as deep,” she explains.

“We were always told by our bid consultants that you needed to do these things well — the bid book, the technical inspection, the final presentation and so on — but none of them counted. What counted were ‘intangible things’… the deals, counter-deals and double deals that go on behind closed doors.”

Many of these intangible things were addressed in the 353-page report former US attorney Michael J Garcia undertook between 2012 and 2014 in his capacity as the chairman of the investigative branch of FIFA’s ethics committee.

The American was appointed after 18 months of allegations about how Qatar and Russia — but especially Qatar — had bought the World Cup. The claims just kept coming and it seemed only a matter of time before one would land that would force FIFA to reopen the selection process.

But Garcia did not uncover the crucial piece of evidence FIFA would have needed to defend itself from a Qatari lawsuit. Qatar would say — and has, many times — that he did not find it because it does not exist.

Others, however, dismissed Garcia’s investigation as a whitewash, saying he was hamstrung from the beginning by a lack of cooperation from key participants and the limits of his powers. This view gained currency during the bizarre 32-month gap between Garcia finishing the report and the rest of us seeing it.

Citing unspecified legal concerns, German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the adjudicatory arm of FIFA’s ethics committee, refused to publish the whole thing in November 2014 and released his own 42-page summary of Garcia’s work, which chastised the Australian and English bids more than Qatar’s. Garcia promptly dismissed it as a misrepresentation of his views.

With mounting calls to publish the report from across football, FIFA’s ExCo eventually agreed to do so but only after the various investigations into individuals identified by Garcia as potential wrongdoers were completed. As this involved potential criminal charges, this would take time.

Meanwhile, Qatar’s hold on the World Cup grew as every new construction milestone was ticked off and most fans lost interest. Even the belated decision to move the tournament out of the Gulf’s blast-furnace summer to the more comfortable climes of November and December, causing havoc for many domestic leagues, was greeted with resigned shrugs.

And when FIFA did release the Garcia report in July 2017 — the day after German newspaper Bild had announced it had got its hands on a copy — it was a crushing anti-climax for those waiting to see Qatar in the dock.

Garcia did, however, note that Qatar’s bid had a level of governmental support that no one else could match. Sure, every country had to agree to FIFA’s shopping list of legal and financial guarantees, and everyone’s head of state did their bit, but the Qatar bid was very clearly a state project of the highest importance.

The perception that Qatar’s bid was using its government’s financial muscle was based on events such as the emir’s meetings with Brazil ’s president and three South American ExCo members (Julio Grondona of Argentina, Paraguay’s Nicolas Leoz and Brazilian Ricardo Teixeira, who remains the subject of a US extradition order) in Rio in 2010. It is easy to see how people might think this when you consider that this trio of voters were later found to have been taking bungs on many other football-related deals for decades, Argentina and Brazil played a lucrative friendly in Doha a week before the World Cup vote and Qatar Airways soon opened routes to Argentina and Brazil.

Another example is the timely deal Qatargas did with Thailand to renegotiate a contract for supplying liquified natural gas (Qatar’s greatest resource) — and the apparent involvement of Thai ExCo member Worawi Makudi’s advisor. The Qatari sovereign wealth fund buying a strip of land in Cyprus for £27million ($32.2m using today’s conversion rates) was another transaction that raised eyebrows as the land belonged to the family of ExCo member Marios Lefkaritis. Makudi, Lefkaritis and the Qataris deny there is any link between these deals and the World Cup vote.

And then there is the tale of UEFA president and FIFA vice-president Michel Platini changing his mind about voting for the US bid days after French president Nicholas Sarkozy invited him to a lunch at the Elysee Palace that was also attended by the current emir Sheikh Tamim Al Thani, then the crown prince, and Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim.

The French football legend has always said nobody asked him to vote for Qatar instead because they did not need to: Platini had already worked out it might be in France ’s interests if he did and, anyway, he now believed the time was right for giving the Middle East a go. The facts that Qatar’s sovereign fund then bought Sarkozy’s favourite team Paris Saint-Germain, turning them into a superpower, Qatari broadcaster beIN Sports invested huge sums in Ligue 1, and Qatar Airways bought 50 French-made Airbus planes, among other major Qatari investments in France, are coincidental, apparently.

All of these stories, and many more, are expertly told in FIFA Uncovered, the four-part documentary about the 2010 vote and the impact it had on FIFA that Netflix has just released. In it, US Soccer executive Kevin Payne says: “I do believe that (Qatar) conducted some business at a global level with people to help secure their votes. Whether you call that corrupt or not, I mean, that’s just the way international business gets done.”

But Hassan Al-Thawadi, the chief executive of Qatar’s bid and now the secretary general of the World Cup’s organising committee, rejects the claim that Qatar leaned on ExCo members’ national governments to influence their votes.

“What geopolitical deals? What deals? Gas deals between whom?” he asks. “The facts are on the ground. Some things are extremely unrealistic. This is our natural resource, it’s something we’re building our future on, it’s not going to be utilised for the sake of a vote for a World Cup.

“It feeds into the stereotype of Arab sheikhs throwing money about, doesn’t it? This is why this World Cup is important. We need to break down that stereotype.

“We abided by the rules. We abided by our moral values. We won on the merits of the bid, on the merits of the vision that this is the time for the first World Cup in the Arab world, in the Muslim world.”

Al-Thawadi is similarly dismissive when asked about the most serious allegation the bid, and him personally, faced in the aftermath of the vote. That is a claim from former bid staff member Phaedra Almajid that he offered three African ExCo members $1.5million (£1.3m) in development grants for their national associations in return for their support. If true, this was a clear breach of the rules.

Almajid’s story first emerged in The Sunday Times in 2011 and was then repeated in the British parliament. But just as the story was gaining global traction, the Qataris announced that the whistleblower had retracted her claims, signing an affidavit to that effect. But that was not the end of it, as she then told Garcia she had been coerced into that retraction and stood by her original claim.

The Netflix documentary retells this story at length but does not mention that Garcia’s report dismissed her account as unreliable. Al-Thawadi simply calls it “inherently false”.

Where Qatar’s bid did get some criticism from Garcia was in its use of undeclared “consultants” and the numerous all-expenses-paid trips to the Aspire Academy, an elite performance centre in Doha, that were dished out to national teams and club sides linked to ExCo members.

“At a minimum, the targeting of Aspire-related resources to curry favour with Executive Committee members created the appearance of impropriety,” wrote Garcia. “Those actions served to undermine the integrity of the bidding process.”

He was also unimpressed with the Qatar bid’s decision to sponsor the African Football Confederation’s Congress in Angola in January 2010. For Al-Thawadi and co, this was a game changer as it gave the bid a golden opportunity to tell Africa’s 54 football federations, and the four ExCo voters in the room, that the Middle East deserved the same breakthrough moment African football would be getting at the World Cup in South Africa that summer.

But Garcia’s was a mild rebuke and even Qatar’s bid rivals told him they thought the Gulf state had been “smart” in spotting a “loophole” in the rules about what you could and could not sponsor.

And that is the impression you get from much of his report. Yes, Qatar spent a lot of money on friendlies and training camps, pampering visiting ExCo members and travelling the world to deliver speeches and dish out gifts, but all the bids — bar perhaps the squeaky-clean Belgians and Dutch — did some of that.

The Qataris may also have traded a bloc of Asian votes for seven European/South American votes commanded by the Spain/Portugal bid, as was widely rumoured at the time of the vote. But Qatar has denied it, nobody has come up with conclusive proof to the contrary and other bids, including England’s, definitely did try to trade votes too.

It is also interesting that the Netflix documentary, which references almost every other allegation ever made about Qatar’s bid, does not subscribe to one of the early theories that their ExCo insider, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed bin Hammam, was the man who bought his country the World Cup.

This is the central idea in The Ugly Game, the 2015 bestseller by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, The Sunday Times journalists behind the “FIFA Files” splash that broke on the eve of the 2014 World Cup. Those files were actually millions of documents and emails hacked from an AFC server and they appeared to show that Bin Hammam, a football fan who made a fortune in Doha’s construction boom, “was the true architect of Qatar’s astonishing and improbable victory”.

This theory, however, has been challenged by more recent accounts, who agree with Garcia, the Qatar bid and Bin Hammam himself that any payments he made to football officials — and he does not dispute that — were to further his ambition of replacing Blatter as FIFA president in 2011. They were not to help Qatar’s bid, which he initially saw as a waste of time and money. In fact, it has even been suggested that he might not have voted for Qatar.

That is unlikely, to be frank, but the fact that some involved with the Qatari bid believe it is telling.

In truth, once the emir had made it clear that Bin Hammam needed to get on board with the project in 2010, he did help the Qatari bid with access to his ExCo colleagues and intel on FIFA’s opaque ways. He also ensured that Oceania’s promised vote for Australia would be off the table when he encouraged Temarii, one of the two ExCo members caught by The Sunday Times sting, to appeal against his suspension — so he was unable to vote — and told him he would underwrite his legal costs.

And, in another tale retold by Netflix, he would provide one more service to Qatar in 2011 when he went to Zurich, under the emir’s orders, to withdraw from the 2011 presidential race, leaving Blatter unopposed for a fourth term. The quid pro quo, it is claimed, was that Blatter would let Qatar keep its World Cup.

Fat lot of good it did Bin Hammam, though. Blatter would see to it that his former ally would be banned from football for life in 2012.

In 2015, the events set running by the seismic shock of naming Qatar as a World Cup host would result in the high drama of the dawn raid at the Baur au Lac Hotel, arrests, guilty pleas and the near collapse of FIFA itself. Four days after winning a fifth term as FIFA president, Blatter would announce his resignation — the price FIFA had to pay to stop US law enforcement from treating it like the Mafia — and he, too, would be banned from football by the end of the year.

FIFA is still trying to recover from the scandals uncovered by the various investigations that only really took off after Blatter pulled Qatar’s card from the envelope. And it is still rumbling on: this week, a London court ruled against former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, a member of the 2010 ExCo, in his bid to appeal his extradition from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States to face charges of fraud, racketeering and bribery over three decades. Warner, 79, denies any wrongdoing.

There is a chance that the everyday corruption at the top of football, which started under Havelange in the 1970s but became endemic on Blatter’s watch, would have attracted concerted, multi-national police interest at some point, but it was the torrent of anger unleashed on December 2, 2010, that delivered it.

Yet nobody has proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that a single one of Qatar’s 14 votes was directly or indirectly bought, and some of the people who would know for sure — Grondona, for example — are now dead.

So, on Sunday, Blatter’s successor and Qatari resident Gianni Infantino will open what he has already decided will be the “best World Cup ever”.

For four weeks, at least, it might even be true, which will be some achievement after a selection process that bad.

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2022 FIFA World Cup™️: The best of the closing ceremony 2022 FIFA World Cup™️: The best of the closing ceremony

Dec 18, 2022

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Watch the best moments from the 2022 FIFA World Cup™️ closing ceremony at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar.

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"With this trend, we've seen that the goalkeeper is often involved in starting moves, even if we shouldn't forget his main function is to prevent goals. But there is a difference between involving the goalkeeper in building from the back and asking him to initiate play in a situation where the team is facing high pressure. In this case, long balls are necessary. It is up to the goalkeeper to interpret the situation and decide when to play long, or when to build from his defence."

Prior to the tournament, speaking on the FIFA Training Centre Podcast, high pressing was identified as a modern global trend in football. Alberto Zaccheroni is well placed to judge this tactical development, as a Coach who regularly asked his players to apply intense pressing on their opponents.

"The big advantage of getting the ball high up the pitch is that you then have a shorter route to goal," the Italian coach explained, citing Switzerland's goal against Cameroon as an example. "When you are in a defensive phase, you already have to anticipate the offensive phase when you recover. When you are in the attacking phase, you have to plan the next defensive phase when the ball is lost."

Sunday Oliseh's club career took in Juventus, Ajax Amsterdam, and Borussia Dortmund among others. At international level he represented Nigeria over 50 times. "We've seen teams that press high, but also other teams that accept pressure, with defensive tactics that allow them to counter it" he said. "What we’ve observed in the first sixteen games, is that the teams that spend more time counter-pressing have a lower ball recovery time. So, the more they counter-press, the quicker they get the ball back, What the data is showing us at the moment, is teams are counter-pressing more. They win the ball back quicker but they’re also having more chances at goal" explained Loxston. "Counter-pressing is very important, even more so today" added Zaccheroni. "While being very taxing, today there are five possible substitutions. So this is a tactic which can be used for the whole 90 minutes. With three substitutions, this wasn’t possible. Today, you can do it continuously, because five changes is half a team. So, this raises the level of quality of the performance."

A final data point presented to the media revealed another trend identified by the TSG. In the first sixteen matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, fourteen crosses led to goals, whilst 56 crosses led to attempts on goal. In comparison, after the same number of matches at Russia 2018, only three crosses led to goals, with 35 crosses resulting in a shot on target. Using Enner Valencia's goal for Ecuador against Qatar in the tournament opener, Sunday Oliseh enthused: "This is a great example of it. He plays the ball back in and the cross is going to be whipped in...he whips it in towards the second post. In my opinion, [he does] that to avoid the congested middle and [as a result] they got that result (a goal)." "If the cross is perfect, there's not much a goalkeeper can do," Mondragón, confirmed. "It's the quality of the cross that determines whether or not the ‘keeper must come out to intercept the ball. In the case of a perfect cross, it's better to remain on your line and try to react."

Qatar Foundation’s World Cup Story

Executive summary.

Throughout the 12-year buildup to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, and the four spectacular weeks of the tournament itself, Qatar Foundation (QF) was at the heart of a nationwide effort to deliver amazing.

As a key supporter of the first FIFA World Cup™ in the Middle East, QF channeled its expertise, its values, its platforms, and its people into the preparations for the tournament, the welcome it would offer to people throughout the world…and the legacy it will create.

Through its programs, partnerships, and events, QF contributed to making the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ the most accessible edition of the sporting showpiece ever – from creating an accessibility guide for residents and visitors and training accessibility volunteers to providing audio description of the tournament’s matches for blind and partially sighted fans.

QF initiatives and opportunities empowered women and youth to embrace the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ and the benefit that sport brings to their lives and their goals, such as through its Women and Girls Football Initiative and its partnership with FIFA partner Wanda Group that enabled young people from Qatar to be at the center of the World Cup experience.

Supporting the hosting of the tournament through its research and innovation efforts, championing sustainability, and catalyzing social progress through hosting events such as the Street Child World Cup 2022, QF also welcomed hundreds of thousands of fans to matches at the Education City Stadium, inviting them to experience inclusive, accessible performances and activities designed to educate as well as to be enjoyed. And its D’reesha Performing Arts Festival, held during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, brought Arab cultural heritage to a global audience.

While the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ may be over, its legacy will continue to unfold. Through its legacy strategy – the key themes of which are education and health; culture, heritage, and the Arabic language; and sustainability and innovation, with a focus on accessibility, volunteerism, STEM and invention learning, and regenerative education – QF will play its part again, this time in ensuring the tournament’s impact on Qatar endures for future generations.

We invite you to explore how QF contributed to making the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ an unforgettable experience for Qatar, the region, and the world – in Qatar Foundation’s World Cup Story.

• QF’s Education City Fan Experience during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™  hosted 448 performances and welcomed 355,000 supporters.
• Over 15,000 people attended QF’s D’reesha Performing Arts Festival, held during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.
• QF led the recruitment of over 600 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ volunteers.
• 28 teams representing 25 countries participated in the Street Child World Cup 2022 at QF.
• 300 young people from 37 countries attended the Generation Amazing Festival at QF.
• 40 storytellers of 22 nationalities have participated in QF’s GOALS program.
• 138 women and 86 girls have participated in QF’s Women and Girls Football Initiative.
• Teachers in 12 countries – including 50 teachers in Qatar – have been trained in the FIFA Football for Schools Program through a partnership between FIFA, QF, and the Generation Amazing Foundation.
• 267 QF youth have participated in the Wanda FIFA Flagbearers Program.
• QF social media posts promoting its ‘Qatar Welcomes Palestine’ activations during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ received 4.5 million impressions.

The Economics Behind the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Author: Logan Carney, Graphics: Acasia Giannakouros

The BRB Bottomline:

With the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 TM just around the corner, the quadrennial questions are, once again, swirling around the event. In particular, questions are being raised around its economic practicality in a developing country that had to spend billions of dollars on constructing the required, large-capacity stadiums and corresponding necessities. Will the broadcasting profits and tourism and publicity boost ultimately result in economic profitability for the country, or will Qatar never overcome its initial construction and bribery costs?

With 3.3 billion people tuning into its 2018 broadcast alone, the World Cup is an undoubtedly massive sports tournament, and one that draws attention from all around the world. Unsurprisingly, countless countries desire to be the hosts of a tournament that guarantees billions of broadcast viewers and typically over a million tourists — but not everyone is lucky enough to have the opportunity. The World Cup hosts are determined through a bidding process in which countries (or groups of countries) submit bids (completed template documents that indicate the desire to host, compliance assessment, risk assessment, and technical evaluations that cover infrastructure and commercial components) for hosting rights, and the FIFA Executive Committee votes on who should be selected. In the case of a tie, the FIFA President serves as the deciding vote. In recent years, many committee members, as well as two former presidents, have been at the focus of bribery scandals, with the presidents even being indicted for fraud . As a result of these scandals, much of their corruption has come to light — now, it is widely confirmed that bribery was the driving force behind many developing countries (like Qatar and Brazil) receiving World Cup hosting rights. Moving forward, with the implementation of stricter oversight and safeguarding procedures, this sort of corruption should not be expected to occur again in the future. But, looking back at the countries that bribed their way into the revenue streams that come with mass tourism, was it really worth it? Take Qatar, this year’s host, for example, who had to put substantial investment in constructing over a dozen new, large-capacity stadiums. In return, the publicity from the World Cup has cast a dark shadow over the country’s image, entailing further economic damages. Is the economic boom caused by World Cup tourism enough to justify the trouble and construction costs? Or, would Qatar be better off had it not offered to host this year’s tournament?  

Direct Monetary Costs for Qatar

This year’s World Cup is estimated to be the most expensive World Cup of all time. The initial costs for Qatar came before construction on the stadiums even began, as the country had to bribe the FIFA officials to secure the selection of Qatar as a host site. Investigation into the secret bribes found that they totaled a staggering $880 million , with $400 million being offered prior to the selection day, and the rest coming afterwards, once Qatar was confirmed as the 2022 host. Once selected, Qatar began constructing new stadiums that would fulfill the capacity requirements laid out by FIFA, and although their initial proposal estimated the cost at $4 billion, it has since grown to be in the reported range of $6.5 to $10 billion . The infrastructure package in Qatar that included the stadium costs totaled $220 billion , but it does include plans for the country’s broader goals of becoming a global innovation hub by 2030. Qatar envisions itself becoming a technological center for business and has worked on reaching this goal over the past decade as it has shifted towards a digital economy focusing on cloud services and data usage. Luckily, the hotels, airport improvements, and transportation costs included in the infrastructure package will directly aid and are necessary in hosting the World Cup. However, infrastructure construction plans are running behind schedule as Qatar’s little engine struggles to keep up with the enormous scales that a World Cup entails — the country needs to make preparations to host 1.2 million fans, around half of its population. Just two months before the first match of the tournament, some facilities intended to be open during the World Cup are still under construction . The 130,000 promised hotel rooms are supposedly still expected to be ready (although the potential use of tents as alternatives has been prefaced by the media if all of the rooms are not fully constructed by the time the World Cup begins). Included in the infrastructure package and also required for the World Cup, an overhaul of the sewage systems across Qatar has been both costly and time-consuming. The astounding $220 billion cost for this year’s World Cup highlights the strong need for host nations to achieve long-term success as a tourist destination and innovation hub after the event in order to make up for the large up-front costs of hosting.

Direct Revenues from the World Cup

FIFA World Cup host countries receive direct revenues through the sale of tickets and broadcasting rights, as well as the purchases made in the country by visiting teams and fans. The most recent estimates from June value these expected revenues for the 2022 World Cup at $17 billion . Therefore, the country of Qatar is banking on around another $200 billion in expected revenue resulting from the publicity of the tournament. But what happens when publicity turns negative and casts a dark shadow over a host country’s national image?

Poor Publicity and a Bad Image

Because Qatar needed to construct multiple large-capacity stadiums, hotels, a metro system, upgrades to its airports, and many other infrastructure-related projects, the nation brought in around 30,000 foreign laborers . Since the start of construction, 6,500 migrant workers have died due to poor safety regulations in the country, and employers have failed to pay countless migrants their full salary before ordering them home. The government of Qatar did not pass labor law reforms until recently, after the majority of the construction had already taken place; by then,  the damage had been done. Furthermore, the bad publicity for Qatar started even before preparations for the tournament began. Human rights organizations around the world have condemned Qatar for its treatment of migrant workers, who have few rights in the country. It was also recently revealed that Qatar will greatly limit foreign media during the World Cup and prevent broadcasters from filming at any accommodation sites, which effectively denies the media the right to interview or capture the treatment of migrant workers, LGBTQ+ members, or any other oppressed group in the country. These stories only represent the negative publicity the country is getting before the tournament starts, and Qatar’s poor image will likely worsen once the tournament begins and the 1.2 million fans flood the country. 

Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs

Although the long-term results will ultimately not be seen until several years following the 2022 World Cup, the short-term financial benefits are certainly outweighed by the costs, as the temporary influx of revenues stemming from World Cup tourism aren’t nearly enough to dig Qatar out of its hole. With a $200 billion deficit to overcome, it will take years to make up for the initial infrastructure costs — granted, they have already been taken into account as part of Qatar’s 2030 target. Economists have found, however, that the World Cup provides little to no gain in real economic growth and tourism for the host countries following the tournament. So then, what are the main benefits of hosting the tournament in Qatar? The hotels, updated sewer systems, and other critical infrastructure pieces will certainly be applicable to the country’s plans of becoming a global innovation and tourism hub going forward, but it is harder to see this being the case for the newly built stadiums. With the top-flight Qatar soccer league, Qatar Stars League, averaging well under a 1,000-person attendance , stadiums with a capacity of 40,000 to 80,000 will provide no utility and most likely become unused money pits — as they are in Brazil, where they sit empty but still require regular upkeep. The nature of soccer makes it challenging to potentially host other tournaments because the vast majority of tournaments and games are held domestically or closer to the big European leagues — unlike other sports like tennis and golf, which switch venues every weekend. 

With the financial costs outweighing the revenues in the short and medium terms, the ultimate benefit of hosting the FIFA World Cup as a developing nation like Qatar is to spread its image out into the world, just as other countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council have been doing in recent years. Flushed with cash from oil operations — especially in the past year as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war and supply chain crunches — Qatar can easily take a loss from the enormous costs for the World Cup, just as Saudi Arabia had done in the creation of the LIV Golf Tour. Like the other surrounding, oil-rich countries around it, Qatar is attempting to become a tourist destination and innovation hub over the next decade or two and is using the World Cup as a way to broadcast a positive global image by focusing on the grandeur of fresh, modern buildings and stadiums. However, the unanticipated bad press might prove to hamper the image of Qatar left around the world following the tournament, lengthening the timeline for Qatar to become a tourist destination and thereby extending the timeframe for infrastructure losses by even longer. Therefore, it appears that it is not worth the money for Qatar to host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 TM ; even though the initial costs for the tournament are no concern for the country, the blood-stained image created by the increased publicity could prove detrimental to Qatar’s short and medium-term goals, making the hosting of the World Cup a waste of time and resources and leaving the fate of the country’s tourism future on the hope of a repaired image and reformed laws.

Take-Home Points

• Qatar bribed FIFA officials for its selection as a FIFA World Cup host country and will host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 TM in November. 
• Qatar spent $220 billion on infrastructure for its hosting of the World Cup, but this staggering figure also incorporates its 2030 plans of becoming a tourist destination and innovation hub. 
• Only receiving an expected $17 billion in revenues from hosting the World Cup, Qatar is banking heavily on the publicity from the tournament influencing the world to desire to travel to the country for both vacation and business.
• Lack of safety regulations and proper oversight by the Qatar government has left 6,500 migrant workers dead and many unpaid for their labor. 
• The blood-stained image of Qatar will damage its short and medium goals, making the benefits from the increased publicity for the country, as a result of hosting the World Cup, minimal and much less than anticipated.

I agree that Qatar’s bid to host the Super Bowl was questionable, especially on your point about the stadiums. Was there no other avenue for Qatar to fulfill it’s mission than to construct brand-new, never-to-be-used-again facilities?

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Shreyas Iyer recreates Lionel Messi's iconic FIFA World Cup-winning celebration after lifting IPL trophy for KKR

I t was a Knightmare for Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Chepauk on Sunday. They faced the dominance of Kolkata Knight Riders earlier in the same week, with the result being the same in Ahmedabad and hence expected to bounce back stronger with clever tactical changes. But the script remained the same with Kolkata inflicting an emphatic eight-wicket win at the MA Chidambaram Stadium to lift their third IPL title.

Both teams got what they wanted at toss, with Sunrisers opting to bat first, given their better record through the season in defending totals. However, Mitchell Starc and Vaibhav Arora inflicted early damage with the new ball, dismissing both the openers in quick time before Harshit Rana outfoxed Nitish Reddy while Andre Russell broke the South African partnership between Heinrich Klaasen and Aiden Markram. SRH were eventually folded for just 113 runs, the lowest even score by an IPL team in the final, in 18.3 overs.

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In response, Rahmanullah Gurbaz got KKR off to a flier with some boundaries while Sunil Narine departed early, Venkatesh Iyer then came out all guns blazing - 4, 6, 6 against Bhuvneshwar Kumar and then 4, 4, 6, 4, against Natarajan as Kolkata amassed the highest ever powerplay score in the final - 72 for one. Iyer continued his sublime knock to smash a 24-ball fifty as Kolkata wrapped up the chase with 57 balls to spare.

After the win, as captain Shreyas Iyer collected the trophy from BCCI president Roger Binny and board secretary Jay Shah, he recreated Lionel Messi's iconic FIFA World Cup celebration moment with his team. Notably, Messi had led Argentina to a title win back in December 2022 after a thrilling win against France in Qatar.

Shreyas labelled Kolkata as the 'invincibles' after they scripted a six-match winning streak, starting from April 29, en route to winning the trophy. They earlier finished as the league toppers with nine wins in 14 games before beating SRH in Qualifier 1 in Ahmedabad last week to make the final.

"We played like invincibles throughout the season. There's so much to cherish right now. It is pleasing, the performance has been flawless throughout. I am running out of words right now. We have been tremendous from game one, we stepped up today. All we demanded from ourselves was to back each other whatever the situation is. The game could have either way. They have been playing phenomenal cricket - SRH - throughout the season," he said in the post-match presentation.

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• Shreyas Iyer recreated Lionel Messi's FIFA World Cup celebration
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Shreyas Iyer recreated Lionel Messi's iconic FIFA World Cup celebration after being handed over the IPL trophy. The Shreyas Iyer-led side scripted history as the defeated SRH by 8 wickets in the IPL 2024 final at the M Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. After KKR's emphatic triumph, Iyer collected the IPL trophy from BCCI President Roger Binny and BCCI secretary Jay Shah. Iyer stole the limelight as he emulated Messi's iconic and viral celebration when Argentina won the World Cup in 2022. Messi had led the Argentina team to a title win in December 2022 after a thriller win against France in Qatar.

Shreyas Iyer does Messi celebration with the IPL Trophy before giving it to Rinku Singh pic.twitter.com/7GjjY6K3TE — ICT Fan (@Delphy06) May 26, 2024

"KKR PLAYED LIKE INVINCIBLES"

Iyer took pride in the team's triumphant campaign in IPL 2024, saying that they felt 'invincibles' throughout the season.

"We played like invincibles throughout the season. There's so much to cherish right now." Shreyas Iyer said in the post-match presentation. . IPL 2024 Full Coverage | IPL 2024 Purple Cap | IPL 2024 Orange Cap

"It was comprehensive. This is what we demanded from the players and they stood up. It's difficult to express the feelings."

"It was a high-pressure game and Mitchell Starc had been so good off-field. Phenomenal work ethic, something to learn for youngsters. Russell has got a magic wand and he is looking towards me to bowl. In the majority of the games, he gave us breakthroughs. Venkatesh Iyer made things easy for us."

"As I said earlier, everyone stepped up. There was no one individual who took us here; it was a cumulative effort. It was a flawless season for us," Iyer added.

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Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Rafah hospital closes due to Israeli bombs

One of city’s two hospitals shut down after Israeli attack kills two medical staff, one day after tent camp massacre.

This live page is now closed. You can continue to follow our coverage of the war in Gaza here.

• The Kuwaiti Hospital, one of Rafah’s two remaining hospitals, has been shut down due to Israeli attacks, its director said in a statement. This comes after two hospital medical staff were killed earlier by Israeli shelling.
• Israeli forces have bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe zone in Rafah, killing 45 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The attack has triggered an international outcry, leading to calls for a ceasefire.
• The attack on the camp in Tal as-Sultan came after Israeli forces bombed shelters housing displaced Palestinians in other areas, including Jabalia, Nuseirat and Gaza City, killing at least 160 others, according to Palestinian officials.
• Israel’s top military prosecutor described the Rafah attack as “very grave” and said an investigation is under way. Earlier, the Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying it targeted Hamas fighters.
• At least 36,050 Palestinians have been killed and 81,026 people have been wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attack on that date stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive.

That’s a wrap for today

Thank you for joining us for real-time updates on everything related to Israel’s war on Gaza.

To read more about the aftermath of the Israeli attack on the Rafah tent camp, access our story here .

For more news, analysis and opinion on the conflict, click  here .

Here’s what happened today

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s events:

• The death toll from Israel’s bombing of a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe zone in Rafah is now 45, most of them women and children, leading to international outcry.
• Netanyahu called the deadly attack a “tragic incident” that his government is “investigating”.
• The Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah has been rendered non-operational, according to its director, due to intentional attacks by Israeli forces on the hospital’s staff and the surrounding area.
• Algeria has requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the situation in Rafah.
• The Iran-aligned Lebanese group Hezbollah says it has launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel in response to a deadly Israeli strike outside a south Lebanon hospital earlier in the day.

Civil Defence reports Israeli attack on Gaza City

The organisation says via a statement on its official Telegram channel that its crews are searching through rubble for survivors after the Israeli army attacked the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Strip.

The statement adds that the strike was on a home belonging to the al-Ghussein family.

A video shared by the group shows its crews and other volunteers crouching in piles of rubble, shouting into the ground to try to contact survivors of the attack.

Palestinians continue to flee Rafah through the night

A video posted on Instagram by Palestinian journalists shows groups of people leaving their place of shelter in Rafah amid intense clashes and bombing in the city under cover of darkness.

The journalists say this footage, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, was taken after midnight local time (21:00 GMT).

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Salah ibrahem (@salah.97ib)

WATCH: Family displaced for eighth time in Gaza

The Salman family wants the world to know they’ve been displaced eight times since Israel’s war on Gaza began.

As they packed up what’s left of their charred belongings following Israel’s latest attack on Rafah, they compared the military assistance given to Israel with the meagre food aid provided to Palestinians and asked if they’ll ever have anywhere safe to live again.

Watch our video report below:

Demonstrators take to streets in northern UK city

Hundreds of demonstrators, if not thousands, have marched in the United Kingdom’s city of Manchester following the attack on a tent camp in Rafah yesterday.

Protesters carried banners that read “Stop Arming Israel” and “Ceasefire Now”, footage shared online showed, as they shouted slogans calling for the end of the occupation of Palestinian territory.

Now: Manchester engulfed in solidarity for Palestinians facing their families being burnt alive in Rafah tents & in the rest of Palestine by Israeli war criminals. Not just for 7 months with 15000 children blown to pieces. For 76 years of massacres, occupation & ethnic cleansing.… pic.twitter.com/xCu2FdApqS — MANPalestine Action (@ManPalestine) May 27, 2024

Islamic Resistance in Iraq targets Israel

The Iraqi group, aligned with Iran, says via a statement that it launched three drones at the Israeli city of Eliat, aiming at military targets.

Local Israeli media reports that all three drones were intercepted as air raid sirens sounded in the city.

Footage posted by Israeli Army Radio shows the interception of one of the drones by Israeli air defences:

האזעקות באילת: 2-3 כטב"מים שוגרו מכיוון עיראק ויורטו מחוץ לשטח ישראל @Doron_Kadosh pic.twitter.com/UspLafngkz — גלצ (@GLZRadio) May 27, 2024

Translation – The alarms in Eilat: 2-3 drones were launched from the direction of Iraq and intercepted outside the territory of Israel.

Netanyahu’s ‘reckless pursuit’ of Hamas caused deaths of innocents: US lawmaker

Citing the attack on the tent camp in Rafah, which killed 45 people, US Congressman Eric Swalwell says, “The same tactics by the same leaders will only produce same or worse results”.

“Netanayhu’s [sic] reckless prosecution of Hamas has killed Israeli hostages, aid workers, and innocent Palestinians. And nothing changes,” the Democratic Party lawmaker said in a post on X.

Democratic US President Joe Biden has publicly opposed Israel’s offensive in Rafah, and his administration suspended one shipment of weapons to Israel over its concerns.

Yet, despite saying in early May that he would withhold more weapons if the country went ahead with a large-scale operation in Rafah, Biden has largely backed away from using such leverage even as Israeli leaders rejected Washington’s warnings.

Netanayhu’s reckless prosecution of Hamas has killed Israeli hostages, aid workers, and innocent Palestinians. And nothing changes. The same tactics by the same leaders will only produce same or worse results. https://t.co/NQYBaf4l1D — Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 27, 2024

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Several deaths reported in another Israeli attack on Rafah

Israeli forces have attacked a house in the al-Hashashin area, in the north of the city, killing and wounding several people, according to local sources.

Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows those wounded arriving at the Al-Helal Al-Emairati Maternity Hospital, including children.

One resident said the shelling hit an area populated by displaced civilians and tents, noting that residents transported the wounded in civilian vehicles before ambulance teams rushed to the area.

We will bring you more as further information comes in.

UN chief condemns Israeli bombing of Rafah displacement camp

Antonio Guterres says the attack “killed scores of innocent civilians who were only seeking shelter from this deadly conflict”.

“There is no safe place in Gaza. This horror must stop,” Guterres added in a post on X.

I condemn Israel’s actions which killed scores of innocent civilians who were only seeking shelter from this deadly conflict. There is no safe place in Gaza. This horror must stop. — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) May 27, 2024

Belgium’s deputy PM calls for sanctions on Israel

In a one-sentence post on X, Petra De Sutter says: “The time for sanctions is now”.

The deputy PM’s post shared an announcement about an upcoming meeting of EU and Israeli officials to discuss whether Israel is fulfilling its obligations to respect human rights as enumerated in an agreement on trade between the two parties.

The time for sanctions is now. https://t.co/P7HMuWT0OK — Petra De Sutter (@pdsutter) May 27, 2024

Israeli bombardment of Rafah ongoing

We earlier reported on an Israeli raid targeting a residential building at the Za’roub Roundabout, in the west of the city.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are now reporting that Israeli artillery shelling has hit homes in the Saudi neighbourhood, also situated west of Rafah.

We will bring you more on this as more information comes in.

Turkey defends Erdogan against Israeli minister’s remarks

The Turkish foreign ministry has slammed comments by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz earlier today, calling his tone towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “disrespectful”.

“Unfounded accusations towards our President are a useless effort to change the agenda regarding the crimes committed by Israel in Palestine,” the ministry said in a statement.

“It is the Netanyahu Government that has killed nearly forty thousand Palestinians since October and barbarically massacred dozens of innocent Palestinians in an attack on a tent camp last night. Anyone who is complicit in these crimes will be tried in international courts.”

Algeria requests UNSC meeting on Rafah massacre

Algeria has requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the situation in Rafah, one day after Israeli strikes on a displacement camp there killed at least 45 people.

The meeting is expected to take place tomorrow at 19:00 GMT and will be a closed consultation, during which no resolutions can be voted on, only tabled and then voted on later.

The UNSC will also be briefed by Juliette Touma, director of communications for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Canada does not support Israeli operation in Rafah: Minister

Canada is “horrified” by an Israeli air strike that hit a tent camp in Rafah, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said, calling for an “immediate ceasefire”.

“Canada does not support an Israeli military operation in Rafah. This level of human suffering must come to an end,” Joly said in a post on X.

We are horrified by strikes that killed Palestinian civilians in Rafah. Canada does not support an Israeli military operation in Rafah. This level of human suffering must come to an end. We demand an immediate ceasefire. — Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) May 27, 2024

Israeli forces target residential apartment in Rafah

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that an Israeli bombing targeted a residential apartment at Za’roub roundabout, west of the southern Gaza city.

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in northwest Rafah, killing 45 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

US says drone shot down over Red Sea

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has destroyed one uncrewed aerial system (UAS) launched from an area controlled by Yemen’s Houthi group.

“It was determined the UAS presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels in the region,” it said in a post on X.

Houthi forces in Yemen have been waging a months-long campaign to target shipping vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden which the Houthis say have links to Israeli firms or ports. Houthi leaders say their attacks on shipping will end when Israel ends its war on Gaza.

27 May Red Sea Update   At approximately 4 a.m. (Sanaa time) on May 27, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully destroyed one uncrewed aerial system (UAS) over the Red Sea, launched from an Iranian-backed Houthi controlled area of Yemen. It was determined the UAS… pic.twitter.com/Wvthx2g9jA — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 27, 2024

EU foreign ministers to meet Israel on human rights obligations: Report

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to hold a meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council to assess Israel’s compliance with the association agreement’s human rights obligations, DPA news agency is reporting.

The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, announced the move in Brussels, stepping up pressure on Israel to comply with a ruling from the International Court of Justice to halt an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

The ICJ ruling cited “immense risk” to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians taking shelter in Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza.

Counter to the ICJ ruling, Israel has carried out “an increase on the military activities, an increase in the bombing” that has led to an increase in civilian deaths, Borrell said.

The EU foreign policy chief said EU foreign ministers asked him “to propose further concrete measures” to ensure Israel’s compliance with the ICJ ruling.

UN relief chief condemns tent attack in Rafah

“Another grim update from Gaza. Israel’s airstrike on Rafah last night reportedly killed scores of people, many of them women and children burned alive,” Martin Griffiths says in a post on X.

Griffiths, head of United Nations emergency relief, called for immediate action to protect civilians, ensure their safety and give them access to aid.

“We’re still unable to pick up goods from Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem crossing] at the scale needed due to impediments and active fighting,” he added.

“Such impunity cannot continue”.

Another grim update from #Gaza . Such impunity cannot continue. pic.twitter.com/dPjmApmIuV — Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) May 27, 2024

Rafah hospital out of service: Official

The Kuwaiti Hospital in the southern Gaza city has been rendered non-operational, according to its director, due to intentional attacks by Israeli forces on the hospital’s staff and the surrounding area.

“Due to the enemy’s expansion of the military operation in Rafah Governorate and the repeated and deliberate attacks on the hospital’s surroundings, the most recent of which was targeting the hospital gate, which led to the death of two staff working in the hospital, as well as the injury of 5 medical staff in a previous targeting, we announce that the Kuwait Specialized Hospital will be out of service,” Dr Suhaib al-Hams said in a statement.

“The working medical teams were transferred to the field hospital, which is being prepared in the al-Mawasi area” on Gaza’s coast, he added.

This statement follows an Israeli attack on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday night, with some of those injured being transported to the Kuwaiti Hospital.

Israeli forces target neighbourhood in northern Gaza

A Palestinian activist in the coastal enclave has shared footage showing smoke billowing in an area near the University College of Applied Sciences in the western part of Gaza City after an Israeli raid.

The video was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by حسام عزام (@hossam.azam2)

Translation: Renewal of Israeli air strikes in the surrounding areas of the University College west of Gaza City.

Qatar’s PM condemns Israeli Rafah massacre in meeting with Arab foreign ministers

Qatar’s prime minister, who also serves as its foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, says in a brief post on X that he met with foreign ministers of the Arab Committee on the sidelines of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers, in order to “exchange views on the situation in the Middle East”.

He said that during this meeting, he confirmed Qatar’s “condemnation of the Israeli army’s aggression against a refugee camp in the city of Rafah, and in the entire Gaza Strip, and its continued violation of international law”.

Last night, the Israeli army bombed a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, killing at least 45, mostly women and children. This attack came on the heels of an order from the International Court of Justice late last week for Israel to cease its offensive on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Pro-Palestine supporters rally in Israeli city

Footage online shows a protest in Haifa has taken place, calling for an end to the Israeli war on Gaza, and condemning Sunday’s Rafah attack.

The videos, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad, shows dozens of demonstrators at the site, holding signs saying “Palestine Lives Matter” and “Hands off Rafah”.

Israeli police were present at the scene, seen detaining some of the protesters.

WATCH: Palestinian journalist returns to work after leg amputation

Sami Shehada was severely injured while reporting on Israel’s military offensive on Gaza.

Since recovering, he has been determined to continue sharing the horrors of Israel’s war on Gaza with the world.

Watch our video to learn about his story: