World Cup 2022: Qatar won the bid, but now the real work starts | Matt Scott

They may have convinced Fifa, but Qatar still need to win over sceptical football clubs and supporters Qatar: 2022 World Cup host. If those words still seem a little incongruous two days after Fifa's vote awarded hosting rights for the world's biggest football tournament to a desert state, the origin of the story is stranger still. Two years ago Qatari leaders were grappling with a fundamental ...

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World Cup Gives Russia an Anti-Graft Goal

Awarding Russia the right to host the World Cup in 2018 was, in fact, the best outcome. FIFA’s decision, reached amid claims and counter-claims of corruption, puts Russia on the spot once and for all to clean up its reputation.

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