2022 looks likely to be a Winter World cup

[Wonderwall]

Mr Blatter has spoken

Sepp Blatter: Still time for 2022 Qatar World Cup winter switch

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is determined to switch the 2022 World Cup to the winter because of the intense Qatar summer heat. The head of world football's governing body plans discussions over the change, which would cause major disruption to various domestic leagues, with his executive committee in October. He said: "We still have enough time.

Sepp Blatter believes there is still time to switch the 2022 World Cup to winter
"The executive committee will certainly follow my proposal. Then we will have dealt with the topic for good."
Temperatures can hit 50C in Qatar, with games scheduled to be played in air-conditioned stadiums.
But Blatter said: "The Fifa World Cup must be a festival of the people. But for it to be such a festival, you can't play football in the summer.
"You can cool down the stadiums but you can't cool down the whole country and you can't simply cool down the ambience of a World Cup. The players must be able to play in the best conditions to play a good World Cup."

Speaking via video link, the head of Qatar's organising committee, Hassan Al-Thawadi, told the conference in Austria: "If it's a wish of the football community to have the World Cup in winter, then we are open to that." Blatter said his change of heart had followed medical information about the effects of the heat on players. "There has been a fresh medical investigation into what it would be like to play football there in the summer and we have to take into account the health, not of the spectators, but of the players," he told Sky Germany. Moving the World Cup to the winter would significantly impact on the the European leagues. Many leagues outside Britain have a winter break but they would need a hiatus of at least six weeks to accommodate national teams preparing for, and playing at, the World Cup finals.

"We have to have the courage - that is Fifa's executive committee - to play this World Cup in the winter and to start to work out now what impact this will have on the international calendar," Blatter added. "It would only be for one year, afterwards you'd be back to the normal routine. But I will advocate that."

Qatar defeated bids from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States to win a ballot of Fifa's 22 executive members for the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Meanwhile, Blatter said Brazil might have been the wrong choice to host the 2014 World Cup if the tournament is affected by the wave of protests seen at the Confederations Cup last month. Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets expressing their anger over the costs to stage the World Cup and demanding better public services. "If this happens again we have to question whether we made the wrong decision awarding the hosting rights," Blatter said. "We didn't do a political debriefing, but we did emphasise the fact of this social unrest being there for the entire duration of the Confederations Cup. "The government is now aware that next year the World Cup shouldn't be disturbed." He added: "It's not we who have to learn lessons from the protests in Brazil; politics in Brazil have to do that."

HOW IS THIS CORRUPT PENIS STILL HEAD OF THE WORLDS GOVERNING BODY, what a twat he is

[Chinners]

Fuck off Twatter

[Alioune DVToure]

Fuck off Twatter

Wrong thread if you're having a dig at gillie.

[Chinners]

Ha ha ... althou I never have a dig at the gamesmaster tbh

[Goataldo]

What a corrupt mess FIFA is. Well done for making a.joke of the World Cup.

[Bianchi on Ice]

What a corrupt mess FIFA is. Well done for making a.joke of the World Cup.

england is ready to host the fucker ffs
its like footy in the playground and england is the fat kid that is always last pick.
Brazil may have been the wrong choice? no blatter...the demonstrations are from people without a pot to piss in fed up
watching fat tinycocks like ricardo teixeira (havelanges son in law) blatantly using his position for criminal activity while they
have their noses rubbed in it...if he wasnt such a crook hed fire teixeira. it would help a little.

[zuricity]

england is ready to host the fucker ffs
its like footy in the playground and england is the fat kid that is always last pick.
Brazil may have been the wrong choice? no blatter...the demonstrations are from people without a pot to piss in fed up
watching fat tinycocks like ricardo teixeira (havelanges son in law) blatantly using his position for criminal activity while they
have their noses rubbed in it...if he wasnt such a crook hed fire teixeira. it would help a little.

I'm taking requests to give to Blatter next time he's in the Fifa offices about 10km from me.

Here's the list so far.....

Feel free to update with your requests, i'm
sure most will be reasonable.

List of things to give Sepp.

1. A good slap around the ear , known as a 'Wake up call'.

[Bianchi on Ice]

england is ready to host the fucker ffs
its like footy in the playground and england is the fat kid that is always last pick.
Brazil may have been the wrong choice? no blatter...the demonstrations are from people without a pot to piss in fed up
watching fat tinycocks like ricardo teixeira (havelanges son in law) blatantly using his position for criminal activity while they
have their noses rubbed in it...if he wasnt such a crook hed fire teixeira. it would help a little.

I'm taking requests to give to Blatter next time he's in the Fifa offices about 10km from me.

Here's the list so far.....

Feel free to update with your requests, i'm
sure most will be reasonable.

List of things to give Sepp.

1. A good slap around the ear , known as a 'Wake up call'.

2. Fire Teixeira...
(wishful thinking though...that fat pig would squeal on blatter in a second. they are all linked to the gravy train, which is part of the problem...a shortage of honest people in FIFA ready to act...blatter gets rid of those people quickly enough
so screwing over a partner in white collar crime would be akin to a turkey voting for christmas)

[Dameerto]

This has been on the cards since Qatar bribed their way to a 'successful' bid. All the talk about air conditioned summer football was a delaying tactic until enough time had passed for Splatter to make his move.

As for requests, give him a "wet willy" (and not in the good sense of the term)

[BlueinBosnia]

I don't see the problem with a winter WC - the summer one disrupts quite a few leagues, so why can't we have a winter one for a change, or is that unfair on the 'big boys'? There's a pretty decent chance England won't be in it, anyway.

The problem I have is UEFA and FIFA's increasing trend for creating new rules retrospectively. It happened for seeding in World Cup playoffs, and now this. If Qatar wanted the World Cup, they should have explicitly stated in their bid that a Winter competition would be much more feasible.

[Twobob]

Twatter - continuing to fuck up world football even after he's (hopefully) carked it!

[halnone]

I don't see the problem with a winter WC - the summer one disrupts quite a few leagues, so why can't we have a winter one for a change, or is that unfair on the 'big boys'? There's a pretty decent chance England won't be in it, anyway.

The problem I have is UEFA and FIFA's increasing trend for creating new rules retrospectively. It happened for seeding in World Cup playoffs, and now this. If Qatar wanted the World Cup, they should have explicitly stated in their bid that a Winter competition would be much more feasible.

agree completely.

[Blue Since 76]

I don't see the problem with a winter WC - the summer one disrupts quite a few leagues, so why can't we have a winter one for a change, or is that unfair on the 'big boys'? There's a pretty decent chance England won't be in it, anyway.

So if England aren't in it, does that mean that Aguero, Zabaleta, Silva etc can stay here and continue to play for us?

I suppose it doesn't affect lower leagues either - I'd certainly go and watch Rochdale v Torquay rather than sit in a warm house watching Brazil v Spain.

Having a winter World Cup will mess up 3 seasons for all the European leagues. If they want to move it there permanently, then fine, we can shift the leagues around as well - I'll be quite happy with no games in January when it's freezing.

But they won't. Some will be in summer and some will be in winter. Won't matter to TV viewers, but will matter to millions of fans who go to games everywhere. But I suppose they don't pay FIFA

[JamieMCFC]

Blatter and the most executive committee will probably be dead by the time the 2022 World Cup is played. They are going to make the decision now and won't have to deal with the consequences.

[Ted Hughes]

I don't see the problem with a winter WC - the summer one disrupts quite a few leagues, so why can't we have a winter one for a change, or is that unfair on the 'big boys'? There's a pretty decent chance England won't be in it, anyway.

So if England aren't in it, does that mean that Aguero, Zabaleta, Silva etc can stay here and continue to play for us?

Well I suppose if Giggs is still playing for Utd, anything is possible. Doubt they'd get international callups at 35 anyhow.

[Cocacolajojo1]

agree completely.

Me as well

[john@staustell]

What an obnoxious pompous twat Blatter is. He and his mates trouser millions of dollars to get Qatar the world cup - allegedly - and then when he realises it's too hot he wants to fuck up all the european leagues for his poxy tournament - about which I care very little anyway.

I think there's going to be a big clash and FIFA will get told where to go.

[JamieMCFC]

I don't see the problem with a winter WC - the summer one disrupts quite a few leagues, so why can't we have a winter one for a change, or is that unfair on the 'big boys'? There's a pretty decent chance England won't be in it, anyway.

So if England aren't in it, does that mean that Aguero, Zabaleta, Silva etc can stay here and continue to play for us?

I don't think it will be an issue for all three of them when the 2022 World Cup rolls around. Their respective ages will 34, 38, 37. But if any of them are they would have to be released by City for the World Cup. If it isn't a rule now Fifa would make it one.

[BlueinBosnia]

Having a winter World Cup will mess up 3 seasons for all the European leagues. If they want to move it there permanently, then fine, we can shift the leagues around as well - I'll be quite happy with no games in January when it's freezing.

But they won't. Some will be in summer and some will be in winter. Won't matter to TV viewers, but will matter to millions of fans who go to games everywhere. But I suppose they don't pay FIFA

Not for:
Armenia
Norway
Iceland
Rep. Ireland
Russia (recently begun transition to 'normal' season schedule, so by 2022 it will).
Sweden

That's Europe alone (and an incomplete list, I believe - didn't even bother looking at Faroes, etc.): a Northern Hemisphere continent.

Add the USA, almost all of Oceania and South East Asia, quite a hefty portion of South America, and the fact that many sub-Saharan African countries have a summer break, and you start to see that it's a pretty even split as to whether a summer or winter World Cup would inconvenience more leagues. But I suppose a winter one will inconvenience wealthy leagues in white countries more, so we should all kick up a fuss...

[Ted Hughes]

This would mean players basically starting one season directly after finishing another, in order to get it finished in time for the World Cup as there isn't just the tournament to think about, there is also all the time taken by training camps etc, or alternatively, the whole schedule gets changed year in year out so players play in part of the summer.

Either way, it is beyond fucking ridiculous.

Imagine the players playing for two seasons with barely a break, THEN the World Cup, THEN back for the next season !! Or any other mixture. Some of them will finish their careers injured. This is going to cause a split.