Renato Ramblas
Tuesday April 13, 2015
Professor Young
English 1101
Essay 3
Qatar 2022 World Cup
What
sporting event happens every four years? Once every four years that simple thing can
drastically change the world. It closes the schools, closes the shops, and can close
cities. Gives people around the world something to hope for. Gives countries
respect where respect is in short supply. It is a global event that unites
people from every part of the world agreeing on one thing because of a ball and
a goal. If you haven’t figured it out yet I’m talking about the FIFA World Cup.
It was just a year ago that the world
saw Germany lift the cup and now soccer fans cannot wait to see who will be the next world champions
in 2018. However, the soccer community will not be pleased with the 2022 World
Cup held in Qatar. There will no longer be a summer World Cup and European
leagues are now forced to change their regular season schedules to accommodate
FIFA’s AWFUL mistake. Many soccer personalities have come out in outrage and
even Europe’s top leagues are threatening legal action against FIFA. Has FIFA
made the right business decision to hold a World Cup in Qatar?
A
traditional World Cup begins in June and ends in July. In Qatar the tournament
will start in November and end on the eighteenth of December because of the
heat in Qatar. A normal summer day in Qatar can see temperatures from 35-40
degrees Celsius (90-105 degrees Fahrenheit) (Sky sports). As a result many of
Europe’s top leagues like the English Premier League (EPL) and the Liga BBVA
(Spanish league soccer) are outraged. They are obligated to switch match days
for the league, league cup matches, and match days for the clubs that have
qualified to play in either the UEFA Champions league or UEFA Europa League (Separate
League competitions that qualified teams from Europe contest to find out what
team is Europe’s best). As a result club
owners and club officials from both large and small soccer teams demand
financial compensation claiming “This is seriously damaging to the European leagues
both from a sporting and a financial point of view” (TheNational). 
Knowing
FIFA they believe by flashing money around no matter the problem it can be
solved. Normally FIFA would pay clubs for releasing players to attend the World
Cup but now they plan to triple the amount paid to clubs who release their
players for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to US$209 million (TheNational).
However not ever soccer club have players who are called up by their nation to
play in a world cup. Small clubs like Eibar in Spain have no international
players and aren’t a big club like Real Madrid (valued at $3.44 billion and
every player in their 23 man squad plays for their nation). What will happen to
small clubs like Eibar who will have their season fractured by a sudden break
half way through the season(Qatar 2022: World Cup fall-out…) ? Till this day
FIFA has no response for that question.
Although
clubs want financial compensation FIFA have come out they will do no such
thing. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke had this to say, “There will be no
compensation. There are seven years to reorganize."(Fifa rules out
compensation). FIFA are now backed up in a corner and they’ll do anything they
can to avoid paying clubs even more money. However it’s their duty to pay these
clubs. No one expected Qatar to host a World Cup and not in a million years did
the soccer community expect a World Cup to be played in the winter. Due to
FIFA’s poor decision making it has hurt them where it hurts the most their wallets.
FIFA
throughout the years have made great decisions to expand the global game of
soccer but granting Qatar to host the 2022 world cup is not one of them. FIFA
has disrupted the natural flow of how certain leagues work and arrange match
day fixtures. Not to mention not having a World Cup held in the summer has
enraged many fans and soccer clubs. FIFA has made a very poor choice allowing
the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar.
Works
Cited
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2022 World Cup
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25 Feb. 2015. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.
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