World Cup moves on Qatar and a lot of problems

While one of the best World Cups ends in Russia, the biggest football tournament has to prepare for its most controversial, Qatar in 2022.

Since the tournament was handed over to the State of the Gulf The decision of FIFA has been questioned at length and has had serious consequences for football and its governing body.

The four years before the first World Cup in the Middle East should not be different. 19659002] With a host shaken by a diplomatic crisis, accused of supporting terrorism, facing allegations of corruption and human rights violations, a tournament moved for the first time in November and December and the number of teams in 2022 is uncertain. It is fair to say that there has never been a World Cup like that of Qatar.

The emirate has sold its bid claiming that the Qatar World Cup would be one for the Middle East, but this claim has been severely undermined Since June 2017, a group of neighboring countries, including the United States, have been in a state of emergency. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has frozen relations with Qatar, accusing it of supporting extremism and being too close to Iran.

The crisis lasted 13 months and it shows little signs of appeasement, but deepens with the accession of Qatar to the UAE to the International Court of Justice in June

It destabilized the party the more stable Middle East and placed 2022 in its viewfinder.

and the UAE openly demanded that Qatar be stripped of the World Cup and promised new revelations later this year.

As part of the crisis, Saudi and UAE citizens are prevented from traveling to Qatar. Before the conflict, the organizers of the Doha tournament predicted up to 1.5 million fans arriving for the tournament, including many crazy football saudis.

FIFA has desperately tried to stay out of the bitter and bizarre conflict, but that seems unlikely. 19659002] On July 11, he announced that he was preparing to prosecute pirates in Saudi Arabia, transmitting Qatar stolen World Cup games beIN Sports

and behind the drama of FIFA, Gianni Infantino relations with Qatar and its ever closer ties with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The myriad of questions surrounding Qatar 2022 is almost unfathomable

Investigations into corruption continue with the Swiss Attorney General's Office. tournament as well as a US court case last year.

Qatar denies all allegations, as it does with the request for terrorist financing The thorny issue of compensation for the major leagues of Europe, including Spain, England and Germany, because they will suspend their leagues during a "Winter World Cup", remains unresolved, with an estimated payment of one billion euros. Despite controversial labor reforms affecting some two million migrant workers helping to build World Cup sites and related projects, human rights groups remain concerned about the pace of reforms promised by the government. Qatar

. including apparently Infantino, for a World Cup of 48 teams in 2022 rumbles on.

Scheduled to be discussed at the Moscow Congress, it was withdrawn from the agenda, only for the top Qatari World Cup official Nasser Al-Khater. July 7 that a tournament of 48 teams was feasible "if the format is well done."

As if all that was not enough, Qatar now has to follow one of the biggest World Cups, with expectations greatly increased. Beyond global problems, he will face more mundane problems, such as limiting alcohol sales in 2022.

Qatari organizers reportedly sent a team of some 30 Russia and will have noted the large number of South American fans and the street party atmosphere in the bars, something foreign to Doha.

The preparations for the Qatar World Cup are far from the same and the next four years promise not to be different. © 2018 AFP