adding 16 more teams to qatar's world cup in 2022 was a bit too optimistic fifo president giani if in tinos idea of the expansion will have to wait until 2026 as schedule fifa wanted neighboring countries like the you to help host the tournament but an economic blockade in the region against qatar showed no signs of being lifted feet for there for release this statement following a thorough and comprehensive consultation process with the involvement of all the relevant stakeholders it was concluded that under the current circumstances such a proposal could not be made now qatar was open to being the lone host for the potential $48.00 team contest but couldn't find a viable operating model to sustain the idea building its world cup if a structure almost from scratch has been and continues to be a tall order in itself however construction for $32.00 teams seems to be on schedule. we have now 6 more stadiums to go by the end of this year 1st quarter of next year will be launching 2 stadiums as well by 2021 all or stadiums will be ready there was already controversy surrounding the 2022 q

gulf nation have been preparing 8 stadiums to stage a 32 team tournament however pfieffer president giani and $29.00 had been looking into expanding the tournament and staging games in neighboring countries a formal decision is expected to be announced at the fee for congress on gender fest in paris qatar is under blockade by some arab countries led by saudi arabia who cues it of supporting terrorism denies the allegations. current titleholders the handlers or have moved into the knockout rounds of this year's asian champions league. they came from a goal down against already qualified shandong running of china to get the when they needed to in their final group game. play a fellow japanese club some fears hiroshima and the last 16. he sent to his blues are heading to the stanley cup finals for the 1st time and 5 decades the blues beating the san jose sharks 51 in game 6 of the western conference finals and was winning 3 consecutive games to advance to the franchise 1st stanley cup series since 970 if used to con the boston bruins back then and they'll face the same opponents this year an

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in 2017 fifa decided to include more teams in the competition last year the organizations president giani in frontino the change could go into effect in 2022 but those plans have now been scrapped cattle has been on the sea and land blockade by saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt since june of 2017 wolf if i have released a statement saying council had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 but after joint analysis both parties have concluded that due to the advanced age of preparations and the need for a detailed assessment of the potential logistical impact on qatar more time would be required and a decision couldn't be taken before the deadline of june it was therefore decided not to further pursue this option. james dorsey is a middle east expert with the s. rajaratnam school of international studies in singapore he says the fee for decision was a foregone conclusion i think with that we have had months or weeks of basically just cussing heart air and something that was in my mind illusionary with other words culture was willing to play this

2017 feet of voted unanimously in favor of expanding the competition and last year fifa president giani infantino said that expansion could begin in 2022 but those plans have now been scrapped or david cohen is a sports writer for the guardian he's also author of the fall of the house of fever and he joins me live via skype from heritage thanks for being with us on the program why was the fee for president so keen to see katter 2022 expanded to 48 teams well i interviewed him in november and he was talking about the expansion of the world cup from qatar to help some of the neighboring countries which had been in hostilities or still are in hostilities with qatar that it would it would help to heal the divide and it would be football team to bring peace to the region but i think you also have to realize that the self interest for the state of president because having 16 more nations competing in the world are going to be very grateful and more broadly the states of nations are going to be pleased that more of them have got your choose play in the world cup and the obviously very grateful

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