I saw about 10 minutes of the presentation today, but don't have anything to compare it with. 

I have a newspaper article saying journalists (from around the world) thought it was great.

haha how corrupt is fifa

Ow and the avarage temperature of qatar in June/july is 40 degrees celcius (106 degrees fahrenheit).Good luck with that.

Also, good luck qatar with the  almost nude, drunk, loud western tourists. That's a terrorist attack waiting to happen.

Averages of 28C min, 44C max for Qatar at June. Holy fuck.

Unless they are planning some ingenious cooling system, matches should be played only at the night if you are anything sane.

But I wonder if broadcasters will allow it. I bet they'd allow players to almost literally die only so more people watch the cup.

I disagree, the USA presentation was pretty bad. Forgetting pages etc.

Belgium/holland was fine,  but nothing spectacular. I think we would have been a better choice than Spain/Portugal and Russia. But I'm happy we didn't win, I don't want my money to fund the corrupt bastards.

It's in a different time zone.

Dominant broadcasters are probably in GMT/GMT 1

I like the Bill Simmons response.

"Any time you can hold a World Cup in a hot Middle East country that's smaller than Connecticut has no soccer tradition, you have to do it."

There is NO fucking reason for it to be in Qatar.  It doesn't even fit the "Lets help poor countries" angle.

Both bids show pretty obvious payoffs and corruption.... but at least Russia is halfway decent.

kowenicki said:   Qatar football stadiums... QAT National Stadium Doha Khalifa Int'l Stadium 50 000 2005 all-seater                     QAT Al-Gharafa Al-Gharafa Al-Gharafa Stadium 25 000 2003 all-seater   QAT Ar-Rayyân Umm-Affai Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium 25 000 2003 all-seater   QAT Al-Ahli Doha Al-Ahli Stadium 20 000 - all-seater   QAT Al-Wakrah Al-Wakrah Al-Wakrah Stadium 20 000 - all-seater   QAT Al-Khawr Al-Khawr Al-Khawr Stadium 20 000 - all-seater                     QAT Qatar SC Doha Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium 19 000 - all-seater   QAT Al-Arabi Doha Grand Hamad Stadium 18 000 - all-seater   QAT Al-Sadd Doha Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium 17 000 2004 all-seater                     QAT Indoor Football Doha Aspire Dome Hall 1 6 000 2005 all-seater   QAT Football-use Al-Shamal Al-Shamal Stadium 5 000 - all-seater   QAT Athletics-use Doha Aspire Dome Hall 2 4 100 2005 all-seater   QAT Basketball-use Doha Aspire Dome Hall 3 1 800 2005 all-seater     PISS POOR!  So they are building 5 new shiny big ones... why?  what for?  how will they be used afterwards?  idiotic.

Watch the qatar presentation. After the world cup they will destroy the stadiums and rebuilt it in developing countries.

Also they will provide "revolutionary" airconditioning inside the stadiums.

england should won 2018 iam really suprised and sad :(

2022: i live and born in dubai and i am happy really happy for qatar