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DOHA: Last year, Qatar's Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al-Emadi said his country was determined to prepare everything for the 2022 World Cup well before fans started to land in the Gulf. He said, before revealing that Qatar spends nearly 500 million dollars (430 million euros) a week for infrastructure projects for the biggest football tournament.
It is highly unlikely that the visitor to the World Cup will rush at the last minute.
Four and a half years before the kickoff of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar is ahead of the sites, related major projects and even painting.
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 more stadiums, Al-Wakrah and Al-Bayt, are expected to be finished by the end of this year, it officially opens its doors in early 2019.
The Lusail Stadium, where the final of the Cup World and the opening match will be held in 2022, is also well underway.
A city tournament and the longest distance between sites just 55 kilometers – progress despite the political crisis of the Gulf
For 13 months, the United Arab Emirates and their allies have frozen all relations with Qatar .
The embargo, in effect since June 5, 2017, cut off the supply of construction materials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but they were quickly replaced by imports from from Malaysia and China. The first Doha Metro, at a cost of $ 36 billion, is expected to open in 2019.
Qatar expects that up to 1.5 million fans will attend in 2022, they will be housed in a combination of hotels, Airbnb properties, tents and some 12,000 cruise ships.
Doha is shown very sensitive to accusations that there will not be enough hotel rooms FIFA is asking a host country to provide the World Cup
designated fan zones and restricted areas where fans can drink
AFP
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