FIFA’s meddling with Qatar’s World Cup should have Canada worried about its own Globe_Sports
The tiny Middle East kingdom of Qatar went to extraordinary lengths to secure the 2022 World Cup.
By “Middle East,” Qatar, of course, meant “Qatar.” But FIFA, in its reliably shifty way, has apparently decided to take its meaning in its broadest and, just by coincidence, most profitable sense. According to a New York Times report, Infantino would like to ramp up his timeline for increasing the number of qualifying countries to 48 from 32. That was first supposed to happen in 2026, in the Canada/United States/Mexico World Cup.Now he’d like to do it one iteration earlier. He’d also like Qatar to share the hosting burden. Oman and Kuwait would take part in what would be, as the Times put it, “a broader Middle Eastern World Cup.
On the one hand, there are the geopolitical and logistical elements – Qatar may see an advantage in sharing; it’s going to be hard to wedge 48 teams into a country that’s smaller than Connecticut. That’s all well and good and 100-per-cent Qatar’s problem.
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