Craig_J
Mido
I used to like international football, now I don't enjoy any of it.
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I used to like international football, now I don't enjoy any of it.
Qatar want the 2024 Summer Olympics
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/olympics/30116370
They've already landed the athletics World Championship from that bastion of integrity IAAF and with IOC being one of the few organisations that are more corrupt than FIFA, it's surely in the box, but how the **** are they going to put either of those on if the World Cup has to be in the winter?
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/olympics/30116370
They've already landed the athletics World Championship from that bastion of integrity IAAF and with IOC being one of the few organisations that are more corrupt than FIFA, it's surely in the box, but how the **** are they going to put either of those on if the World Cup has to be in the winter?
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
The summer Olympics in the winter.
Heda SPURSCZ
Steven Caulker
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/qatar2...529262.html?intcmp=fifacom_hp_module_news_top
Late-November/late-December proposed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Following a six-month consultation process, FIFA’s Task Force for the International Match Calendar 2018-24 held its third and final meeting today in Doha, identifying end-November/end-December as the most viable period for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™. The proposed event dates have the full support of all six Confederations. The proposal will be discussed at the next meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, scheduled to take place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich on 19 and 20 March 2015.
The outcome of the discussions is also a proposed reduced competition days schedule with the exact dates to be defined inline with the match schedule and number of venues to be used for the 22nd edition of football’s flagship event. Furthermore, the task force, chaired by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President and FIFA Executive Committee member Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, was exploring the option of staging the FIFA Confederations Cup 2021 in another AFC country during the traditional June/July window, while another FIFA competition – potentially the FIFA Club World Cup - could be relocated to Qatar to serve as the operational test event for Qatar in November/December 2021.
Various proposals for alternative dates to June/July for the 2022 FIFA World Cup were assessed at the three task force meetings by representatives of the football community at confederation, member association, league and club level as well as representatives of FIFPro, the ECA, the EPFL, the CEO of the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ Local Organising Committee, Hassan Al Thawadi and FIFA’s medical experts. The analysis aimed to find the most viable solution for all stakeholders, covering the likely and possible impacts of conditions on players, staff and fans, as well as the knock-on effect for domestic leagues. The representatives of the leagues once again emphasised the impact that a November/December tournament would have on their respective calendars.
Given that the two bidding cities for the 2022 Winter Olympics - Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Beijing (China PR) - pledged recently to host the winter games from 4 to 20 February 2022; that the month of Ramadan begins on 2 April in 2022; and that consistently hot conditions prevail from May to September in Qatar, the only remaining effective option is the November/December window. For legal reasons, the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup must be played within the calendar year 2022.
The members deliberated over the various options to determine the least impact on the national and international football calendars. This included a preliminary discussion on whether the traditional timeframe for the preliminary competition will remain or whether the qualifiers window will be moved to staging the final phase on early 2022. To finalize the international match calendar for the 2018-2024 period, the Task Force will reconvene in the same composition after the FIFA Executive Committee will have decided on the final 2022 FIFA World Cup dates. The date to be confirmed in due course.
“We are very pleased that, after careful consideration of the various opinions and detailed discussions with all stakeholders, we have identified what we believe to be the best solution for the 2018-2024 international match calendar and football in general. It was a challenging task and I want to thank all members of the football community for their productive input and constructiveness in helping to find a solution that we believe can work for everyone,” said Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
Late-November/late-December proposed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Following a six-month consultation process, FIFA’s Task Force for the International Match Calendar 2018-24 held its third and final meeting today in Doha, identifying end-November/end-December as the most viable period for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™. The proposed event dates have the full support of all six Confederations. The proposal will be discussed at the next meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, scheduled to take place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich on 19 and 20 March 2015.
The outcome of the discussions is also a proposed reduced competition days schedule with the exact dates to be defined inline with the match schedule and number of venues to be used for the 22nd edition of football’s flagship event. Furthermore, the task force, chaired by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President and FIFA Executive Committee member Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, was exploring the option of staging the FIFA Confederations Cup 2021 in another AFC country during the traditional June/July window, while another FIFA competition – potentially the FIFA Club World Cup - could be relocated to Qatar to serve as the operational test event for Qatar in November/December 2021.
Various proposals for alternative dates to June/July for the 2022 FIFA World Cup were assessed at the three task force meetings by representatives of the football community at confederation, member association, league and club level as well as representatives of FIFPro, the ECA, the EPFL, the CEO of the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ Local Organising Committee, Hassan Al Thawadi and FIFA’s medical experts. The analysis aimed to find the most viable solution for all stakeholders, covering the likely and possible impacts of conditions on players, staff and fans, as well as the knock-on effect for domestic leagues. The representatives of the leagues once again emphasised the impact that a November/December tournament would have on their respective calendars.
Given that the two bidding cities for the 2022 Winter Olympics - Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Beijing (China PR) - pledged recently to host the winter games from 4 to 20 February 2022; that the month of Ramadan begins on 2 April in 2022; and that consistently hot conditions prevail from May to September in Qatar, the only remaining effective option is the November/December window. For legal reasons, the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup must be played within the calendar year 2022.
The members deliberated over the various options to determine the least impact on the national and international football calendars. This included a preliminary discussion on whether the traditional timeframe for the preliminary competition will remain or whether the qualifiers window will be moved to staging the final phase on early 2022. To finalize the international match calendar for the 2018-2024 period, the Task Force will reconvene in the same composition after the FIFA Executive Committee will have decided on the final 2022 FIFA World Cup dates. The date to be confirmed in due course.
“We are very pleased that, after careful consideration of the various opinions and detailed discussions with all stakeholders, we have identified what we believe to be the best solution for the 2018-2024 international match calendar and football in general. It was a challenging task and I want to thank all members of the football community for their productive input and constructiveness in helping to find a solution that we believe can work for everyone,” said Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
Armenia Spur
Steven Caulker
Hopefully by then a breakaway football governing body will have formed rendering the current World cup as we know it obsolete.
a spur from swansea
Naybet
What will happen if none of the home countries get there.......no football in november/december.........i think their be loads of babies being born in aug/sept 2023.
jts1882
Dean Richards
One option is to play on regardless. Clubs will just have to adjust to a loss of international players to the world cup. It's a squad game. All the PL clubs have loads of young players on loan so they will have plenty of bodies they think are worth paying.
This is what rugby does. They keep playing with depleted squads. I can't remember for certain, but I think they adjust the points per game during the world cup period, which is a bad idea.
This is what rugby does. They keep playing with depleted squads. I can't remember for certain, but I think they adjust the points per game during the world cup period, which is a bad idea.
Seedy Ron
Jimmy Neighbour
Sepp'll see to this, he's a big fan of shorts and it'd confuse the hell out of the TV cameramen if they couldn't spend the entire game picking out women for closeups.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
I don't believe they can, FIFA say no other football can be played during a World Cup.
Superhudd
Simon Davies
I wish people would stop talking about this brick and show some fcuking balls and say fcuk you FIFA we shall not be entering. And then let the governing body.. Premier League take fifa to court for breaking the contracts of every premier league player.
With the new tv deal every single superstar will be playing in England by 2022.
In any case ISIS would have taken over the whole of the middle east by then akin to the Ottoman Empire, so no World Cup. As for Russia, economically they could be fcuked if no ones turns up and sanctions are still in place come 2018, could be riots in the streets of Moscow long before 2018 actually. lol
With the new tv deal every single superstar will be playing in England by 2022.
In any case ISIS would have taken over the whole of the middle east by then akin to the Ottoman Empire, so no World Cup. As for Russia, economically they could be fcuked if no ones turns up and sanctions are still in place come 2018, could be riots in the streets of Moscow long before 2018 actually. lol
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braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Very much this for me too. We live on a fudging spherical planet where the seasons are opposite on the northern and southern hemisphere. The problems some people have with a "summer tournament" being held in winter seems to me to just be "oh noes, this is new, don't like it".
milo
Jack L. Jones
Absolutely.
milo
Jack L. Jones
Why do you think that we should pull out of the tournament?
Superhudd
Simon Davies
Because if you think a situation is crooked or underhand you distance yourself from it.. pull out, morally its the right thing to do, show some balls.
If you want to play in it stop moaning/whinning and just get on with it.
I don't care if we are in it or not personally, I think International football is politically corrupt and is as legit as the Eurovision Song Contest, I am talking about those at the FA and the Premier League not me.
milo
Jack L. Jones
Were there any past tournaments that you thought that we ought to pull out of for the same reasons?