Yeah, Qatar is a bit of a stumper. What are women allowed to do/not do there?
breathesteve
This has made my decision to go to the next World Cup in Brazil. No desire to go to Russia or Qatar.
OkiDokie
Qatar?
Big WTF, but could be interesting.
As for Russia, I'm happy for them
Sasha
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Originally posted by breathesteve
No desire to go to Russia
your loss
Ortemy
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Originally posted by Sasha
your loss
+1
malek
Qatar is basically a one city-state: Doha.
Where will they put all the stadiums, what will they do with them after the WC.
It just seems like a huge waste of resources.
This being said, I am not surprised, these mickey mouse caliphats are run by big egos who are willing to throw money out of the window just to get some visibility.
Mach X
Qatar may not be on the top of everyone's list for places for the FIFAWC, but they have some pretty in sweet plans for proposed stadiums!!! :eyes:
geroin
Endlesswave
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Originally posted by Ortemy
+1
I'm down. Let's go.
ChemEnhanced
Japan should have gotten 2022
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Japan promises high-tech 2022 World Cup
By JOHN LEICESTER, AP Sports Writer Dec 1, 2:53 pm EST
ZURICH (AP)—Japan promised an experience as though fans are in the actual stadium, watching and living a World Cup match even when they are on the other side of the globe.
Aiming to dazzle FIFA with modern magic, Japan said Wednesday that if it hosts the World Cup in 2022 it will beam games to stadiums around the planet using revolutionary 3-D technology.
Members of the Japanese delegation arrive at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, to present their bid to host the soccer World Cup 2022.
The broadcasts will make it seem as though players are rising out of the ground, almost holographically. The soccer action in Japan would be filmed using hundreds of cameras and be broadcast to screens that will be laid flat on the fields of iconic locations like Wembley Stadium in London or the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.
The 3-D images will protrude from the ground, making it seem to fans that they are witnessing the real game. The players would appear to be life-size and the action would be in real time.
That, at least, is what the Japanese promised.
“The idea of this technology blows my mind,” Kohzo Tashima, the CEO of the Japanese bid, said in its presentation to the executive committee of FIFA, which will chose the 2018 and 2022 hosts on Thursday.
He said it will allow 360 million people around the world—many times more than at any previous World Cups—to enjoy a “full stadium experience,” offer “a completely new experience of enjoying football” and provide FIFA with “dramatic” new ways to make money.
Japan’s team, presenting last of five nations bidding for 2022, showed computer-generated mock-ups of what the images would look like but not a working model of the technology.
However, Sony chairman and CEO Howard Stringer said the so-called Full Court 3-D Vision will work.
“This is not science fiction,” he said. “In 2022, this will be science fact.”
Japan is not considered the favorite to win Thursday’s vote, in part because it co-hosted the World Cup in 2002 with South Korea, which also is bidding again.
Stringer acknowledged those concerns, saying that the 2002 tournament “seemed like it only happened yesterday.” But he and others in the bid presentation focused on Japan’s promise of a technological leap for soccer and FIFA.
“We are talking about one very big idea,” said Junji Ogura, the bid chairman who also is a FIFA executive and will have a vote Thursday. “This is the next great adventure FIFA can lead.”
The other candidates for 2022 are the United States, Australia and Qatar.
CODE
Russia For the Win !!
Fifa cant handle the English..lol
Stilez
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Originally posted by Skipper
....What are women allowed to do/not do there?
Why do you always have to bring the same argument into every topic?
I/we get it, you're a feminist. Cool, but quit trolling your agenda into every discussion, ALL THE TIME.
Don't mean to be a fkn about it, but it's getting to me. Let's leave this thread to the topic of Futbol & FIFA.
That being said, to overlook Spain-Portugal's bid? England's bid? Japan? I'm sure $$ had to have exchanged hands for this decision to be made. What has Qatar contributed to football in the last....forever years?
