Qatar 2022: "It may well be that we have made a mistake at the time" (Joseph Blatter, FIFA)

"It may well be that we made a mistake at the time.," said Joseph Blatter, President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), on the 10/09/2013, about the allocation of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

He will ask FIFA's Executive Committee, on the 03 and 04/10/2013 in Zurich (Switzerland), to approve a resolution to move the XXIIth World Cup in winter. "I would be very much surprised, more than surprised, if the Executive Committee will not accept the principle you cannot play in summer in Qatar," he said on the 25/08/2013.

"The World Cup is always held in the European summer. It always succumbed to the European audience. But the world has become a much smaller place. Distances have become much shorter as well," he said in an interview to the English website insideworldfootball.com. "Who are we, the Europeans, to demand that this event has to cater to the needs of 800 million Europeans above all, when there are over 7 billion people who populate this planet and of who 6.2 billion are not European?"

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