Upcoming Brazil World Cup is proving to be a learning platform for many future world cups in one sense or another. Like, if we talk about climate conditions, we have Qatar world cup which is becoming one of the most controversial WCs ever, and if we talk about rising budget on infrastructure work, we have Russia who is the host of 2018 FIFA world cup. Actually, there is a big protest running throughout Brazil against the rising WC expenditure at the cost of their day to day necessities, in fact, many taxes have been imposed just to fund the setup bills despite Government’s earlier promise not to burden general public for FIFA cup’s expending. Fearing a similar protest, South Africa has cut down its budget considerably isolating organizers to nowhere. Actually, a dent on construction budget has been put on by Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development who restricted the projected spend in almost seven World Cup areas from $442 million per unit to $386 million per unit saving $389 million … [Read more...]

After so much hype and hoopla, a two days meet finally concluded in Zurich giving a new promise about Qatar world cup, i.e., a task force will find out which is the most suitable timing for the controversial world cup. This is probably the first time, a world cup has got so much attention from every corner of the world, in fact, if we compare the media share being grasped by Qatar hosted event, it would be more than upcoming Brazil world cup which shows how critical the concern is considering the rising reactor scale readings during summer in this Arab country. Before the executive meet in Zurich, almost every top official gave conflicting views about the soccer tourney; some advised to play under cooled atmosphere in summer itself, while some also suggested shifting it to winter, and even some advocated for a complete shift from Qatar to some European country. But sidelining these recommendations, FIFA now seek more experts’ views about the problem which could be within everyone’s … [Read more...]

Qatar world cup debate is again getting the heat from another part of the world who has a different opinion about the proposals to shift it to winters. Actually, soccer fraternity has been divided into two parts on the issue: first one are those who want it to be held on its traditional summer timings while second one are those who care for everyone and want it to be shifted to winter – for the first time in history. Despite FIFA president’s call to make a way to organize this event within everyone’s comfort zone, American continent has come forward as its strong opponent. This is the same region who was beaten on the ballot by Qatar to win the 2022 FIFA world cup’s hosting rights three years ago; hence it could also be a cold way to retaliate by US soccer federation who is speaking via its president Sunil Gulati. The lecturer of Columbia University says he will oppose the resolution demanding untraditional changes to the World Cup timings in governing body’s executives meet on October … [Read more...]

It seems days are passing by faster than ever, or it could be the curiosity of upcoming mega soccer event in Brazil where the world would eye to see how exaggerated hosts perform in front of their home crowd. This has always been a greatest challenge for every country who hosts a big sporting event and soccer world cup has always been a special one. On paper, Brazil has the wealth of meat in their squad; perhaps they can make any team stun with their eye candies likes of Neymar, yet they are also under pressure to prove they can win a world cup at home. Being the hosts, they don’t need to qualify for the event while others are still fighting for a confirmed place in the global soccer event; still Brazilian coach is gearing up his socks to find out better than the best for his last eleven. This is not an easy task especially if you have several world class footballers in your squad, and more importantly, Brazilians are lacking a parallel opportunity to test their strength, after all you … [Read more...]