FIFA: 2022 World Cup in Qatar on the Executive Committee's agenda on the 03 and 04/10/2013

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"2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar: period of the competition," is the title of topic 25.2 of the agenda of FIFA's (Federation Internationale de Football Association) executive committee, scheduled on the 03/10 and 04/10/2013 at the organisation's headquarters in Zurich (Switzerland).

If this World Cup is to become a party for the people, you can't play football in the summer," said Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, on the 17/07/2013, about the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar, Persian Gulf country where temperatures reach 50 °C in the summer. "You can cool down the stadiums but you can't cool down the whole country," added the president of FIFA.

"It may well be that we made a mistake at the time," had then said Joseph Blatter, on the 10/09/2013, about the allocation, on the 02/12/2010, of the XXIIth World Cup to Qatar. Sepp Blatter will ask FIFA's executive committee to approve a resolution to move the competition in winter. "Once the Executive Committee of FIFA has agreed to that, we can take the next step, which will include a close look at the international calendar and establish what…

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