{"id":34450,"date":"2018-12-10T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34450"},"modified":"2018-12-10T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:54:07","slug":"fifa-to-decide-if-qatars-neighbors-can-assist-in-hosting-wc-2022-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/10\/fifa-to-decide-if-qatars-neighbors-can-assist-in-hosting-wc-2022-games\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA to decide if Qatar\u2019s neighbors can assist in hosting WC 2022 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PARIS, <strong>Gianni Infantino reiterated that FIFA will decide in March whether neighboring countries could be allowed to host some of Qatar 2022&#8217;s games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two teams contested this year&#8217;s World Cup in Russia, widely feted as one of the most entertaining editions of the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>Although FIFA is intent on 48-team future editions of the World Cup from 2026, a decision on Qatar won&#8217;t be known until next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll decide in March,&#8221; Infantino said Sunday on French TV show Telefoot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve already decided that future editions should feature 48 teams, we all think it&#8217;s a good idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the next edition is held in Qatar, it will be the first to be held in the Arab world and the first in a majority-muslim country.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the soaring summer temperatures, it will be held over November-December instead of the European summer months of June and July.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the competition has been shortened by three days &#8212; a factor that could be decisive in the considerations on the 48-team format.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy because it will be played over 28 days, instead of 31 for a normal World Cup,&#8221; said Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>In March, FIFA will hold a meeting in Miami, where it could also decide whether neighboring countries could be allowed to host some of Qatar 2022&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not, if it&#8217;s feasible?&#8221; added Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking to Qatar about the possibility of holding some matches in nearby countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not dream, it&#8217;s not impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PARIS, Gianni Infantino reiterated that FIFA will decide in March whether neighboring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-world-cup"],"views":930,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34452,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34450\/revisions\/34452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}