The World Cup

     On May 14th 2014, the head of FIFA admits to let Qatar to host the 2022 World cup a mistake. The choice of selecting Qatar was proven controversial because during the summer time, when the world cup is usually held, Qatar can reach temperatures up to fifty degrees Celsius. If they plan to move the world cup to the winter months it’s going to conflict with many leagues in Europe such as La Liga, British Primeir League and Bundesliga. Many of the players in those leagues will have to choose if they want to play in the World Cup or in their respective leagues. This move would prove to be costly to the world cup and the European leagues. One proposal was to make the stadiums with air condition. There have been many human right violations with the building of the stadiums in Qatar. It is estimated that 220 billion dollars is going to be spent on the world cup compared to South Africa spending 3.5 billion.

     Having the world cup in Qatar is a big mistake; with their track record of having slave labours from India, and Malaysia not being good. It should not be acceptable because 1200 migrant workers have died in Qatar since the announcement of the world cup and an estimate of 4000 will die when it is finished.   I do not know how a country like Qatar got the world cup over countries such as The United States, South Korea, Japan and Australia. Honestly I think that there has been some unfair business happening between the FIFA heads and Qatar. I hope that the world cup would be moved to another country but this is most likely not going to happen.  That world cup is in eight years and that should be enough time to move it to another country.

http://www.dailyzone.com/articles/608/20140516/fifa-head-calls-qatar-2020-world-cup-mistake.htm

http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-world-cup-workers-dead-2014-3
Picture : http://failaka.com/amnesty-accused-qatar-of-slave-labor/

For a good short documentary on the story go to

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:11019010