Talked a little in the shoutbox but I'll echo myself here a little bit.
Qatar has no experience hosting anything even close to this magnitude. They are going to have to build a ton of **** to accomodate everything and it's gonna be at least a million degrees. Their plan doesn't sound all that secure or realistic... Something about building air conditioned stadiums and then dismantling them to give parts to needy countries or something??? Good luck with that.
As for spreading the popularity of soccer, who cares? It's already the world most popular sport, and as the USA has shown, some countries just aren't soccer crazy and never will be. Qatar better start preparing ASAP, I just don't think they have what it takes to accommodate everyone and everything. it's such a huge scale event for a place that doesn't hold large scale events.
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