World Cup In Qatar Has Already Failed | The Reason why Qatar World Cup has failed

WHY QATAR WORLD CUP SEEMS TO FAIL?

 The World Cup in Qatar has already failed, that might seem like a bit of an odd statement to make after all we normally reflect the legacy of a WorldCup and its successes and failures from the host's perspective. After the tournament is finished and sometimes a year after it is finished not weeks before it has even begun but then again this is No ordinary world cup contrary to popular opinion countries that host the WorldCup dont actually make money. Certainly not as a direct result of hosting the tournament but not even after taking every tangible external long-term factor into account hosting the Worldcup is very expensive south africa spent 3.6 billion dollars in 2010,brazill spent 11.6 billion in 2014 and russia spent a record-breaking 14.2 billion dollars. 

And the most expensive worldcup to date in 2018 none of these countries recouped that investment or even came remotely close and that is unsurprising given that fifa retains all ticket merchandise gooda media and television rights for the worldcup so host nations receive none of that revenue.

And not just that FIFA also insists as part of the WorldCup bidding process that all of the proceeds that they generate through the sales of tickets merchandise tv rights and everything else remain entirely tax-free.  Meaning that the house nation not only doesn't get a share of that revenue they do not even collect any taxes receipts no wonder FIFA once a WorldCup every two years the world cup in Qatar is estimated to have cost the host around 220 billion dollars. For all stadium transport and related infrastructure projects so this world cup was always going to lose money and a heck of a lot of it but that was never the metric by which the success or failure of this tournament would be measured.

 Success for Qatar at this world cup would be laundering the state and its regimes reputation increasing foreign investments into the country creating an image in people's minds of Qatar as being a modern forward-thinking country and raising the nation's profile as a desirable tourist destination long-term bit is all part of Qatar's aim like so many of its neighboring countries to diversify their economies away from oil long term legitimize the undemocratic authoritarian and often tyrannical regimes and to extend their soft powerband solidify their power base, particularly within the region it's not dissimilar to Russias motives for hosting the WorldCup four years ago just on steroids but whilst Russia was very successful in achieving those aims.

 At The WorldCup, there is good reason to believe that Qatar has already failed and the reason to be seen is the extent to which those. The world cup is an unmitigated disaster it is unusual for the World Cup to be a controversial job and South Korea were considered to be a contentious host in 2002. Because the time difference meant that games will be played in the morning for European fans disrupting the working day of FIFA's most profitable viewers Germany's winning bet in 2006 was so controversial that it forced FIFA to change the way in which the bidding process worked as Germany beat South-Africa by 12 votes to 11 in the final round after new Zealand FIFA executive member charlie Dempsey abstained at the last minute despite having been instructed by the Oceania football confederation to vote for South Africa.

 which would have tied the votes at 12 all Dempsey said that he abstained because of intolerableFraud for his roles in the betting process thankfully because of the changes and practice that was implemented by FIFA because of that scandal in the 16 years since there havent been controversial worldcup hosts nah iam just kidding fee for executive chuck blazer admitted that he and others on yhe fifa executive conmittee had accepted bribes in relation to south africas succssful bid to host the 2010 word cup in 2004 qnd there were even reports that morocco had actually received more bids than South Africa.

But that south africa had still been chosen as the host regardless meanwhile the host nation themselves were accused of displacing people mostly impoverished and homeless people or refugees to make space for fan parks infrastructures projects. They try to reduce crime the 2014 world cup in brazil was so controvrsial that it prompted mass protests across the country in 2013 & 2014 before the tournament had begun with riots and civil arrests in several brazilian cities the controversy revolved largely around the public.

 Spending a national debt that the government was spending on the tournament which many felt would have been better spent elsewhere in a country where poverty remains Rife the wikipedia article entitled list of 2014 FIFA World Cup controversies is a fairly lengthy read and it includes subheadings such as protests monorail collapse and bridge collapse yeah that is rarely a good sign I dont think I need to get into the controversy surrounding the 2018 wc inbrussia that would constitute an entirevvideovin of itself the pointvbeing here has never been a squeky clean FIFA world cup whetger it is the betting process.

WORKERS SAFETY

 The safety of workers or the actual practicalities of the event itself there always issues differently with 2022. The world cup is there are only issues scandals and controversies and virtually no benefits the kickoff times in south korea and japan and the distance between the two countries at the first world cup to have more than a single host nation may have been contriversial but it was also the first world cup to be held in asia by two mature democracies where football was enjoying rapid expansion and both had half decent teams and fotball pedigree germanys winning bid may have been a little bit suspect but the country itself couldn't be much better prepared to host the world cup in terms of the football culture, stadiums and transports link.

LANDMASS PROBLEM

 Second most successful nation in the history of the competition Germany had never previously hosted the Worldcup.  South Africa was the first world cup in Africa in a football-mad nation that benefited enormously from related infrastructure projects the nation of brazil is as suitable as a Worldcup host as it is imaginable to be and even Russia is a country with immense football heritage it is literally country in the entire world and it had never hosted World cup either as Russia or as part of USSR nor had any country from the former Soviet Block. That is why when Russia and Qatar were announced jointly as host countries for the 2018 World cup and 2022 wc back in Dec 2010 there was a bit less scrutiny around Russia's undoubtedly questionable winning bid because everything about Qatar's winning bid was quite so ludicrous. 

Qatar is a tiny country by far the smallest ever to host the wc smaller than Albania and Lithuania in terms of population and smaller than Vanuatu Northern Ireland and even the Falkland Islands by landmass Qatar has next to no football heritage never having qualified for the world cup and they ranked outside of the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings and had only once got out of the group stage of even Asian cup when they were selected as host nation in 2010 the country had virtually no football infrastructure with just one notable football stadium the Khalifa international stadium which had a capacity of just 20,000 in 2010.

ACCOMMODATION PROBLEM

And they had even less ability to accommodate or move around the more than a million football fans that typically depend upon a host nation When they hold the FIFA World Cup. Qatar welcomed fewer than  600,000 international tourists in 2020  and even fewer when they won their bid to host the World cup in 2010 which is fewer than countries like Iraq,libya, and malawi is fewer ever than malta which is a tiny archipelago with a population of around half a million people. These are just hurdles to cut out hosting the wc along with the tremendous heat there in the summer which forced the tournamentvto to be moved to the winter to spy cats claming that they could hoat it in sunmer which was a lie let alone the fact it was rapidly shown to have been the most corrupt bidding process in the entire history of an organization that is quite famous for ludicrously corrupt bidding pricessess.

There is the possibility that problems relating particularly to accomnodation and logistical issues actually further damage the qatari brand. If you like and could be a source of great humiliation given that this is a worldcup that had a virtually limitlss budget and the use of either low-paid or even some cases entirely unpaid labor. This was the area where Qatar wasnt suppoesed to have any issues yet just weeks away from the tournament kicking off whilst the stadiums themselves looked fantastuc we are seeing images of unfiniahed hotels and frankly dangerous fun parks.

 And accommodations costing 207$ and night lights I had that currently looked like a container yard. It seems absolutely no problems with having thousands of football fans all supporting different national teams in one of tge fewesignated sites in qatar whwre you can actuall drink alcoholvbeing crammed all together in several hundred  shipping containersvin the middle of a desert this is tge stuff that we couldnt feel onfident making any predictions about because they ahould be ficed or ironed out and qatar has the resources to do that but at least far and from what some of those on the ground are sayinfg as well this is hardly reassuring it sure would be a shame if massively expensive and deeply shameful propaganda exercise ended up being a humilitating  fasrcright. Lets end here because this issue cant be stopped answering.