World Cups, whether in football or cricket, or in any other sport for that matter, is a worldwide event that allows the fans to view professional players represent their countries and go head to head with only one coming out a winner, and this attracts massive crowds, obviously. This in turn means that the revenue generated by World Cup is a great upside for hosting such tournaments and countries which bid for that are ready to invest in building the required infrastructure to get a share in that revenue, which believe me, is not small. UEFA
In 2010, bidding for later world Cups like 2018 and 2022 was done to give the selected bidding country to have enough time to prepare. Among these bidding countries was a rather absent country from the world of football when it comes to having top class professional players playing in the top leagues, Qatar, and the only thing backing them was oil money, which meant that fans and players would be having a great time in newly built state-of-the-art stadiums and facilities, regardless of the fact that people aren’t that passionate regarding football their and that’s just the start of a long list of problems that would be faced when the 2022 World Cup arrives.
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Qatar, as we all know, is an extremely warm country which means that following the same time schedule as other world cups wouldn’t be possible and the leagues would have to be disrupted to let the World Cup take place in the colder months of November, something never happened in the history of football. The person responsible for giving Qatar the rights to host is Michael Platini who has now been taken into custody for alleged corruption on the matter mentioned above. Qatar wouldn’t be close to the list of countries where holding the World Cup would make sense. This led to an incredible shuffle in the ranks at FIFA and many people were charged for corruption in this matter and others in the process of cleaning the football body from any dirty politics.
