while i agree with your nicely put sentence that "the FIFA World Cup is basically a MONTH LONG PARTY with the host nation being the venue". Still i think a particular nation's culture shouldn't be a barrier since it's a global event. Like i mentioned many times before, Hosting a global Sport event is The powers that be Ambition. I'm sure if we didn't have "any chance in hell" of winning this bid as pilgram wrote , we wouldn't bid in the first place. Specially with mr. Mohammed bin Hammmam being a FIFA executive member , and an insider in international football federation for over a decade.
It's very clear there are many obstacles , and i 'm not speaking about the few infrastructure development which will be eventually constructed in one way or another within the following few years. But the social aspects, as not many Qataris share the same enthusiasm as TPTB and have expressed that in many local Internet forums or secretly in thier "majles". In addition to the raise of conservative ideology followers among the local public who are anti-multiculturalism And have spoken continuously against the sell of Alcohol in public, Women dress code & gender mixing
Maybe hosting the world cup is a good thing at the end for the people of this country. In one way it would push officials to regulate the current sponsorship law to abolish human rights violations and also change the mindset of the locals.
while i agree with your nicely put sentence that "the FIFA World Cup is basically a MONTH LONG PARTY with the host nation being the venue". Still i think a particular nation's culture shouldn't be a barrier since it's a global event. Like i mentioned many times before, Hosting a global Sport event is The powers that be Ambition. I'm sure if we didn't have "any chance in hell" of winning this bid as pilgram wrote , we wouldn't bid in the first place. Specially with mr. Mohammed bin Hammmam being a FIFA executive member , and an insider in international football federation for over a decade.
It's very clear there are many obstacles , and i 'm not speaking about the few infrastructure development which will be eventually constructed in one way or another within the following few years. But the social aspects, as not many Qataris share the same enthusiasm as TPTB and have expressed that in many local Internet forums or secretly in thier "majles". In addition to the raise of conservative ideology followers among the local public who are anti-multiculturalism And have spoken continuously against the sell of Alcohol in public, Women dress code & gender mixing
Maybe hosting the world cup is a good thing at the end for the people of this country. In one way it would push officials to regulate the current sponsorship law to abolish human rights violations and also change the mindset of the locals.