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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.

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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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History was also made by Stéphanie Frappart, who not only became the first woman to officiate a FIFA World Cup match, but also, together with Neuza Back and Karen Díaz Medina, formed the first all-female trio to take charge. Against Ghana, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo achieved another incredible milestone by becoming the first player to score at five editions of the tournament. Many matches have attracted the best audiences of the year in their respective countries, with England v. USA becoming the most watched men's football match on US television ever.

“The outcome of the group stage shows the extent to which more countries have acquired the tools to compete at the highest level,” said FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development, Arsène Wenger. “This is the result of better preparation and analysis of the opponents, which is also a reflection of a more equal access to technology. It is very much in line with FIFA’s efforts to increase football’s competitiveness on a global scale.”

A world gathering in Doha

As the group stage wrapped up last night, the FIFA Fan Festival welcomed its one millionth visitor. Besides the official tournament venues, Doha’s seaside promenade – the Corniche – has attracted more than two million people since the start of the tournament, with the traditional Souq Waqif market becoming another hotspot for fans from around the world. Uruguayan and Korean fans can be proud of having reached a mighty 131 decibels at their match at Education City Stadium – a noise akin to that heard at a live rock concert.

The most compact FIFA World Cup since the inaugural edition in 1930 is also benefiting fans, teams and media representatives, with the option of attending several matches and entertainment activities per day, while operations continue to run smoothly. During the group stage, the Doha Metro and Lusail Tram networks notched up 9.19 million trips, with a daily average of 707,032 passengers. The two international airports are comfortably accommodating the influx of fans and teams – so far, 2 million Hayyas (Fan IDs) applications have been received, with fans from Saudi Arabia, India, the USA, the United Kingdom and Mexico at the top of the list for tournament attendance to date. In spite of the unprecedented condensed footprint, with 24 teams staying within a 10km radius of each other, players and officials have also smoothly transferred 3,321 times in and around Doha. “It’s been a fantastic World Cup, with groundbreaking figures and memorable moments both on and off the pitch. Fans are having an amazing time in Doha, and the whole world is following with excitement on TV as new records as set every day,” said FIFA COO World Cup, Colin Smith. “What some saw as a challenge, we saw as an opportunity. Teams, media and spectators are enjoying more matches, more festivals, more football, more fun – the compact footprint is comfortably addressing the influx of visitors through state-of-the-art infrastructure and thorough operational plans.” “Together with the host country, we are constantly monitoring and addressing any situation that arises, but the figures already achieved and the fans celebrating together in a joyful and peaceful way throughout this group stage speak for themselves – we are on track to deliver a successful and unforgettable FIFA World Cup.”

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Qatar is the first Arab country to ever host the World Cup . And for the first time, soccer's biggest tournament is happening in November and December, instead of June and July, when it's normally held. The entire global event was specially moved to a cooler time of year to avoid the hot summers of the Persian Gulf — or Khaleej in Arabic.

Qatar is a very small peninsula country, mostly made up of arid desert, that shares a land border with Saudi Arabia and a sea border in the Persian Gulf with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Iran.

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What isn't small is Qatar's bank account. It's among the richest countries in the world. The average income of Qatar's 300,000 citizens is the highest of any country in the world. Plus, they don't pay taxes and get free health care and free education.

But those citizens make up just 10% of Qatar's population. The other 90% — immigrants from around the world — don't get the same perks.

"It's just spent $200 billion at least on hosting this World Cup — on winning the bid, building the stadiums, building the infrastructure," award-winning author and sports journalist James Montague says.

Over the past couple of decades, Montague has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, including to Qatar. He wrote a book called When Friday Comes , which is the modern story of football, aka soccer, in the region, and especially the rise of the Gulf.

Montague, who has been called "the Indiana Jones of soccer writing," says that on these travels he got to experience the region in a way many people don't get to.

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"I do realize I'm — you know, I'm a white man. I'm a white Westerner, white English person. And so I had a, in some ways, kind of quite privileged position in that respect," he says. "And because a lot of people will say, if you're a football writer or a sports writer, you're a bit of an idiot, you know, it also gave you incredible access to spaces that you never really would've — it would've been much harder to get. And this was the key to the way that I then ended up seeing the Middle East."

In the Middle East, like in much of the world, football — soccer — is life.

But what no one could have predicted was that, of all the countries in the region, Qatar would be the first to host a World Cup. So how did we get here?

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Qataris like football but they love falconry. Hunting with birds, bashing the dunes in 4x4s, chewing the fat with the chaps in desert camps — that is the life for the man about Doha.

The sport is so popular that most of the birds, which can cost as much as £85,000 ($100,000) each, are farmed and the trade in wild falcons is discouraged.

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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?

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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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The Economics Behind the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Author: Logan Carney, Graphics: Acasia Giannakouros

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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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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.

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Controversy has surrounded the 2022 World Cup from the moment Qatar won the bid 12 years ago to be the host country. Host Carol Hills tells the troubled backstory of the soccer tournament that will draw 1.5 million fans to Qatar, and will put the tiny Gulf monarchy front and center for football fans around the globe.

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Before Arnold Dix saved dozens from an underground tomb, he was a hero during Qatar's 'World Cup of Shame'

Before Arnold Dix was hailed a hero for helping rescue 41 men trapped underground in India, he was already a "silent hero" to thousands of migrant workers forced to live in appalling conditions in Qatar.

Australian Story can reveal the international tunnelling expert from Victoria ran a secret, self-funded humanitarian program in the oil-rich emirate in the lead-up to it hosting football's 2022 World Cup, when ill-treatment of workers from Africa and Asia was rife.

Amnesty International dubbed it the "World Cup of shame".

Dix, a barrister, scientist and professor in engineering, organised aid in Qatar and did it secretly out of fear of reprisals from "a multi-billion-dollar human-trafficking system".

"I was able to assist thousands of people with everything from food to getting passports, to strategies to leave the country, [getting] access to health care, speech pathology, medications … and [getting] them out of jail," Dix says. He also helped foreign women who had been forced into prostitution.

"I just quietly did that and I did that for years," says Dix, who went to Qatar in 2011 to consult on the underground safety systems at the country's new international airport.

"I'm so excited [for those] who've turned their lives [around]. For me, the proof's in the pudding."

One of the men who witnessed Dix's humanitarian work, Nigerian-born Waheed Lawal, is now working in the US as a safety engineer on the New Shepard project, which is run by billionaire Jeff Bezos's aerospace company, Blue Origin.

"[Dix] is a silent hero," Lawal says. "He has impacted countless lives through his enduring acts of kindness, especially towards marginalised groups."

Dix's name hit the headlines last November when he was called to India to assist in the rescue of 41 workers who were trapped after the collapse of a major highway tunnel they were building through the Himalayas.

All the men were freed after a marathon, highly publicised 17 days, and Dix was praised not just for his work in the rescue but the respect he showed Indian people and their culture.

Lawal says: "[He's] a person that doesn't look at colours of people, doesn't look at religions, and … just goes ahead and does what is right."

Dix says he learned of the plight of foreign workers after witnessing labourers at the airport site fall asleep on the job. He discovered they were starving.

He learned that many men were forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions, and had to scrounge for food and work.

He was shocked by the way desperate migrants were treated in the streets, as if they were invisible. "People would just walk right past," he says.

Dix couldn't turn a blind eye. He organised night-time clandestine food drops before deciding to establish training courses through his company to give the workers qualifications.

Dix jokes that from the outside his company looked like Qatar's worst-performing consultancy. However, it "provided me with an opportunity to continue the humanitarian work, while also helping with the safety on their infrastructure."

Victor Gadimoh, a Nigerian still living in Qatar, assisted Dix in running the aid program, enabling Dix to remain anonymous.

Gadimoh says many employment scams were run through companies without the knowledge of authorities, and he insists the country has improved its protection of workers since the frenzy of construction for the World Cup.

Gadimoh wanted to tell the story of Dix's good work in Qatar years ago, but Dix stopped him, fearful for the safety of his family, staff and himself. Gadimoh is glad the man he calls "Prof" can now be recognised for his life-saving work.

"In my culture, good deeds are to be remembered and retold," Gadimoh writes in a letter. "I don't think Prof is a rich man — what I saw was that he was prepared [to share] what he had with others. I think he is just a working man with a humanitarian heart."

Gail Greenwood, Dix's long-time business manager in Australia who spent time working with him in Qatar, says Dix sold property to fund the mission and devoted all his earnings from that time to helping the stranded foreigners.

"He always jumps in boots and all and this was no different," Greenwood says. "He just went in to do the maximum he could to get the best outcome.

"He saw a need and he went after it."

Dix says he knows what it's like to come up against "horrible people". He's been duped and cheated in his life, he says, but he chooses "to stand above that".

"My view," Dix says, "is that if people just helped each other when they can, how they can, you would have an instant transformation of the planet."

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