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  2. Given the minimal infrastructure Qatar had in place at the time it was awarded the hosting rights to the World Cup, seven new stadiums have been erected ahead of the tournament, as well as new...

  3. According to leaked documents seen by The Sunday Times, Qatari state-owned television channel Al Jazeera (now beIN Sport) secretly offered $400 million to FIFA, for broadcasting rights, just 21 days before FIFA announced that Qatar will hold the 2022 World Cup. The contract also documented a secret TV deal between FIFA and Qatar's state run ...

  4. Nov 19, 2022 · And more than a decade after Qatar actually won the rights to host the tournament, investigations rumble on into the corruption that bedeviled the process and resulted in the FBI knocking in FIFA’s doors.

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  5. Nov 24, 2022 · We explain how Qatar won the rights to World Cup 2022 in one of the most controversial decisions ever reached in the soccer.

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  6. Nov 19, 2022 · For those of you who have just emerged from a 12-year stint in solitary confinement, Qatar beat bids from Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States to win the right to stage this...

  7. Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup by placing its bid at the centre of its national and foreign policy strategy. Qatar’s huge oil and gas reserves have, in the space of four decades, taken it from backwater to the richest country on earth per capita.

  8. Oct 20, 2022 · In 2010, Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The country would become the first in the Middle East to host the world’s biggest sporting event, beating stiff competition...

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