Qatar world cup and controversies surrounding voting that chose the Arab nation to host its first world cup have been in the headlines but now it seems to be in concluding stage with a FIFA executive committee member almost threatens in his interview that they are positively thinking of shifting the venue to somewhere else coz of the heat. Although, these kinds of rumors have ever been in the air but this time it looks something serious especially after ethics committee started investigating 2010 bidding process where Qatar won the hosting rights. Notably, several recent findings alleged that some influential peoples played an important role in winning or rather buying the confidence of a section of voting members hence if anyhow, ethic committee finds anything wrong in the whole process, Arab state may be ousted from world cup penal at least for the 2022 world cup. Theo Zwanziger, the member of the executive committee, broke his silence about shifting the hosts in his interview to a German news source, he said, they are thinking to either shift the event to winter or to another State altogether if investigators find any violation of the rules in winning the world cup bid.
On the other side, Qatar is confident that not only they will host the event but also investigation levied against them will find everything in tune to the rulebook hence they are not in a mood to directly mess with the governing body – at least for now. Qatar’s executive director of communications, Nasser Al Khater, said, “Qatar will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022, despite comments of FIFA executive committee member Dr. Zwanziger, which reflect his personal opinion and not that of FIFA. The only question now is WHEN, not IF. Summer or winter, we will be ready. We have proven that a FIFA World Cup in Qatar in the summer is possible with state-of-the-art cooling technology.
As far running investigations are concerned, majority of the FIFA members who imparted in the bidding process have now reigned, further, Mohamed bin Hammam, the center of the controversy has also been banned forever, hence it is going to be very difficult to link any former voting member directly to that of bidding favors for the ethic committee and you can’t prosecute anyone mare on the basis of assumption – this is what senior lawyers believe in present case. One such lawyer said, “What is the point of an ethics commission if it can’t take the biggest political decisions?”