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DOHA : Last year, Qatar's Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al-Emadi declared that his country was determined to prepare everything for the 2022 World Cup before fans started to land in the Gulf. "I want to paint while people arrive in the country," he said before revealing that Qatar spends nearly $ 500 million a week on infrastructure projects as part of the biggest tournament American football.
that all World Cup visitors will attend last minute preparations.
Four and a half years before the kickoff of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar is ahead of the others.
Of the eight stadiums it will build or renovate for 2022, one – Khalifa International – is already open and will host the World Athletics Championships next year.
Two other stadiums, Al-Wakrah and Al-Bayt, are expected to be completed by the end of the year and officially opened in early 2019.
Work is also well advanced in Lusail Stadium, where the World Cup final and the opening match will be played in 2022.
Doha Construction – The 2022 World Cup is actually a tournament and the longest distance between sites only 55 km – progresses despite the Gulf political crisis.
In 13 months since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and World Cup organizers have resisted.
The embargo, in effect since June 5, 2017, cut the supply of building materials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but they were quickly replaced by imports. New roads, hotels, museums, neighborhoods and even cities – including the estimated $ 45 billion Lusail – were built
The first Doha Metro, at a cost of $ 36 billion dollars, is expected to open in 2019 [19] 659002] Qatar expects up to 1.5 million fans by 2022 and they will be accommodated in a combination of hotels, Airbnb properties, tents and some 12,000 cruise ships.
Doha is shown very sensitive to the accusations that there will not be enough hotel spaces claim that it will not live up to the 60,000 rooms of the same year. hotel that FIFA requires from a host country of the World Cup
Areas of designated supporters will be set up as well as restricted areas where fans can drink.
conservative Muslim country, allows alcohol, but only under regulated circumstances.
Where teams will stay in Qatar – and if all will remain in Qatar – for the moment is not clear.
Iran has offered its island of Kish as a base for the teams and its use could depend on whether the tournament remains a 32-nation World Cup or whether FIFA offers plans to increase it to 48 countries. The British Typhoon hunters, bought last year by Qatar for $ 8 billion, will contribute to the security and defense of human rights. patrol the heavens during the event. – AFP
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