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PRAGUE — UEFA president Michel Platini says he's OK with the idea of shifting the 2022 World Cup
in Qatar to winter from summer to avoid extreme desert temperatures. After a UEFA executive
committee meeting in Prague on Friday, Platini said it would be easier to organize the World Cup in
January, instead of June.
After digesting all the stories of what happened with England and the USA's bids for their
respective World Cups, it was time to bring out my opinion on what the hell happened on Thursday,
December 2. I had a bad feeling that the FIFA executive committee failed football fans around the
world and us here in the United States.
Dangers to fans and players have prompted the Asian Football Confederation to urge FIFA to
reschedule the 2022 World Cup to January or February in order to avoid the scorching 40 degree
summer heat in Qatar.
AFC General Secretary Peter Velappan also believes European countries may boycott in protest at the
dangerously hot temperatures and that the proposed air-conditioned stadiums are not enough.
I see on the Asian Football Confederation website there are links to .pdf copies of official
programmes/brochures for the Knock Out stage and the Final of the AFC Champions League.
Earlier in the year I managed to pick up a copy of the programme for the group stage, more by
luck than chance and I also have a copy from last season's group stage but it would be nice if
these fine brochures were made more widely available rather than just being distributed to a select
few.
It could be argued that Persipura missed out on last season's Indonesia Super League because
their near impregnable home stadium of Mandala Stadium in Jayapura was undergoing renovations so
that it would meet Asian Football Confederation criteria for hosting Asian club football.
Their opening home games were played in Makassar, vital points were dropped and they missed out
on a second consecutive title.
With MLS announcing that they will have a dedicated scout looking into the AFC, and specifically
working with the San Jose Earthquakes at the J-League Free Agent Combine, it is time for the
Sounders, or at the least MLS, to go after this youngster hard. There's a reason I launched the
Searching for a Free post with him.
We're not in Qatar any more: A worker clears snow from the roof of the Veltins-Arena soccer
stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, just before Christmas (AP Photo).
It figures that as the East Coast continues to dig out from its winter weather woes (I'm assuming
MLS would be done by now, even if it were to move to a fall through spring schedule) and even
usually temperate England debates (yet again) a winter break from soccer that there are even more
voices suggesting the 2022 World Cup be moved from the scorching summer months in Qatar.
In the last four years Indonesia have hosted three major footballing tournaments. The Asian
Football Confederation and the ASEAN Football Federation seem to like having Indonesia as host
because they put bums on seats.
In 2007 Indonesia was one of four hosts of the Asian Cup. In 2008 they hco held the AFF Cup and
again this year.
