FIFA: Qatar WCup will not be in summer
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The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will not be held in June and July but would best be held in the winter, FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said yesterday.
The scheduling of the tournament has been hotly debated ever since FIFA controversially awarded it to Qatar in December 2010. Most fear the summer heat in the Gulf emirate would be dangerous for players and fans alike.
“The dates for the World Cup (in Qatar) will not be June-July,” Valcke, the second most powerful man in international football’s governing body, told Radio France.
“To be honest, I think it will be held between November 15 and January 15 at the latest. If you play between November 15 and the end of December that’s when the weather conditions are best.”
World Cup organizing officials in Qatar have insisted they are prepared for all eventualities.
“From the beginning, we’ve always said we can stage the World Cup in summer,” Hassan Al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the Qatar 2022 Organizing Committee, said last month.
“But if the football world or FIFA want it to be staged in the winter then we are happy and ready.”
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