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0 pointsAaronmacaron3y ago0 comments

- The WC is primarily a football tournament. Qatar is a country where it's too hot to play football even in the winter. They had to add ACs to the Stadiums so it's somewhat tolerable (not a joke).

- Because it's so hot in Qatar the WC was moved to the winter. This breaks the long standing tradition of doing the WC in the summer.

- In many countries where people actually care about the WC it's cold and rainy in winter. Traditions such watching the WC outside with family and friends obviously cannot exist this time around.

- There is zero football history or tradition in Qatar. Nobody there actually cares about football. Why do the WC there?

- It is very obvious that the only reason why we have a WC in Qatar is corruption. Corrupt people in the FIFA and in western goverments and willingness to bribe and do everything imaginable to get the WC from the Qatari government.

- Qatar now has 8 large and very modern football stadiums in the radius of 50km but the entire country only has less than 3 million people. For camparison London has three times the population but not as many comparable stadiums eventhough London can be considered the world capital of football. Those stadiums will most likely not be really used after the WC.

- It is a known fact that thousands of migrant workers had to die in order for those stadiums to be built.

- Fans are not allowed to wear pride flag colors. Players are not allowed to armbands with pride flag colors because the Qatari government doesn't like it.

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lvbu3y ago· 2 in thread

1. This is one of that ways to get more people interested in football. Majority of the population is in south asia and chinela, Quatar is quite close and this wc is very accessible for us

2. Why world cup is held in summer? Is it because Europe is cold in winter and Europeans prefer summer. Unfortunately world is not just Europe. Since this is WORLD cup why should it not be held in seasons that is suited where it is hosted?

3.Same as above. Football is popular across world.

4. May be this is to get football more popular in middle East. Why only conduct where it is popular now. Let's conduct where more young people are present.

5. Corruption in FIFA is not new. This is not specific to this world cup.

6. So what. May be Quatar is trying to be a sports destination of MENA. It's their money. Let them spend it the way they want.

7. So has a large number of people died in making the phones, clothes, chocolates, diamond, cofee or anything in Modern world. Do you stop using phones and clothes because of that?

I come from Kerala in india where a large population emigrate to Arab countries including Quatar. Heck even my uncle was there at some point. People go to these places because they pay well. May be not as much as western world would like, but much more than we make here. So i don't give too much importance to the stories about slave labour and everything.

8. Are you coming to watch football or to promote pride culture?

mtlmtlmtlmtl3y ago

The world cup is held in the summer because that's when no other football is going on. It's that simple. Moving the WC to november not only ruins the WC, but ruins the entire rest of the football season. And even doing it in November it's just too hot.

lvbu3y ago

Let the people around world conduct it when it's suitable to them

Yes it's hot in quatar. So is the whole MENA. Don't they deserve to see football?

Let Europe do it in summer when it's suitable there. Let quatar do it in winter when it's suitable there..

This is the closest and most accesible football worldcup to 1 billion people in India. I am thankful to FIFA for conducting this in Quatar

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