FIFA World Cup 2022 Countdown Enters Final Week As Attention Turns to Qatar

The inaugural FIFA World Cup 2022 will begin on November 20 in Arab, when the host nation takes on Ecuador.

The week-long countdown to the World Cup in Qatar began on Monday, with the world’s top footballers focusing their attention on one of the most contentious tournaments in history. Domestic leagues were suspended for six weeks following a last weekend of action to allow the tournament to take place, but teams’ preparation time is limited.

The first FIFA World Cup will begin on Sunday when the host nation takes on Ecuador. Holding football’s showpiece event in a desert state has prompted an extraordinary reorganization of the international football calendar, with the World Cup being moved from its usual summer position in the northern hemisphere to escape the Gulf’s blistering heat.

On November 14, teams submitted their final rosters. Iran named Sardar Azmoun, a top player who has shown support for the protests in his homeland, to their final 25-man squad.

Sunday’s game is the finale of Qatar’s unprecedented drive to win the tournament and then go on a spending spree worth tens of billions of dollars to develop stadiums and infrastructure.

FIFA’s pleadings to “concentrate on football” have fallen on deaf ears as the countdown to kick-off has only escalated scrutiny of the Gulf state’s treatment of migrant workers, women, and the LGBTQ community.

The country of barely three million people, which is one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas, has spent handsomely. New stadiums cost about $6.5 billion, while a $36 billion driverless metro system serves five of the eight sites.

Some estimates put overall infrastructure spending over the last decade at $200 billion. Organizers anticipate that over one million fans will travel to Qatar, and they have addressed worries about a lack of housing by deploying three cruise ships as floating hotels. They are completely scheduled for the first two weeks of the event.

Organizers claimed that 2.9 million of the 3.1 million tickets have been sold, and supporters have been queuing outside the FIFA booking center in the hopes that scarce seats for important games become available.

All in all, as the date of the world cup is coming near, fans have turned their sharp focus on Qatar so that they could enjoy the event completely.