FIFA World Cup: The 22nd edition of the competition will take place in Qatar later this year.
The tournament is scheduled to be played between November 20, 2022 and December 18, 2022. It will be the first edition of the FIFA World Cup to be held in an Arab country.
32 teams from six different continents will participate in the main event. The current World Cup champions are France.
They lifted the trophy after beating Croatia 4-2 in the final of the competition in 2018. The European nation is among the favorites to lift the World Cup again this term.
FIFA World Cup: Paris cancels public screenings in the fan zone.
According to ESPN, Paris will not broadcast World Cup matches in public fan zones.
The Western European country is concerned about violations of the rights of migrant workers and the environmental impact of the tournament in Qatar. The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be the first edition of the competition to be played in the northern autumn due to the intense summer heat in Qatar.
Asked why the city boycotted the screenings, Paris Deputy Mayor Pierre Rabadan said: “The conditions of organizing this World Cup, both on an environmental and social level. Air-conditioned stadiums” and the conditions in which these facilities have been built must be questioned”.
According to a Guardian report published in 2021, 6,500 migrant workers have died since Qatar won its bid to host the tournament.
Ukraine will join Spain and Portugal in the bid for the 2030 FIFA World Cup
Ukraine will join Portugal and Spain in their bid to host the 2030 edition of the FIFA World Cup. The presidents of the soccer federations of the three countries announced their project at an event in Switzerland earlier this week.
The Eastern European nation has been at war with neighboring Russia since February. The president of the Ukrainian football federation Andriy Pavelko recently commented that hosting the 2030 World Cup would be the dream of the people of his country.
While speaking to the media, he said: “This is the dream of millions of Ukrainian fans”, Pavel “the dream of people who survived the horrors of war or are still in the occupied territories and over whom the Ukrainian flag will surely fly. early. .”
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay have submitted a bid to co-host the 2030 edition of the FIFA World Cup. Apart from that, Saudi Arabia is also preparing a bid to host the tournament along with Egypt and Greece.
