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No club compensation for 2022 WCup date switch
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FIFA flexed its muscles again yesterday when it announced that clubs will not get any compensation for losing players and suffering domestic disruption due to a 2022 winter World Cup in Qatar.
A day after a FIFA task force angered Europe’s clubs by recommending a November/December tournament, the general secretary of soccer’s governing body Jerome Valcke told reporters in Doha there would be no financial payments for any disruption to domestic leagues.
“There will be no compensation. I mean they have seven years to reorganize football around the world for this World Cup,” said Valcke when asked if any payment would be made following the shift from the originally proposed dates of a European summer tournament.
“Why should we apologize to the clubs? We have had an agreement with the clubs that they are part of the beneficiaries. It was US$40 million in 2010 and US$70 million in 2014.”
On Tuesday European Clubs’ Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Europe’s clubs would seek financial compensation, but Valcke ruled that out following a meeting of a FIFA task force in the Qatari capital. The proposed new dates for the event are set to be ratified by FIFA next month.
Valke also said the duration of the 2022 tournament is set be cut from 32 to 28 days, meaning more games will be played per day, so a country of Qatar’s size might need fewer stadiums.
“We are talking about a reduction of the competition in terms of the number of competition days. We are talking about 28 days and not anymore 32 days,” Valcke said following the first board meeting with Qatar’s 2022 organizing committee.
During his visit to the Gulf state which has been repeatedly criticized for poor worker’s rights, Valcke said that World Cup projects could bring hope for improvement in this area. “If the standard for all construction sites in Qatar reach the level of standard we have for all the specific World Cup construction site, then a big step will be made in the country for this working conditions.”
“We use the World Cup as a way to change a country,” he added.
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