With the passage of time, we will usher in the World Cup every 4 years, because this year's venue is in Qatar, therefore, this year's holding time is not the same as previous sessions, it is opened at the end of the year, today let Xiaobian take you to understand this World Cup, what you want to know is here.
1. Event Period:
This year's World Cup opener will be held on November 21, the first time the World Cup will be held in winter, and due to Qatar's special geographical location, the temperature in the summer is generally above 45 degrees Celsius. Chinese fans who have watched the World Preliminary Round should be aware that in order to avoid players playing in the case of too high temperatures, the Football Association intimately negotiated the time until 1 a.m. Beijing time, that is, 9 o'clock in the local evening. Therefore, it is really helpless to hold the World Cup in winter.
The entire schedule of the World Cup will run for 28 days, starting on November 21, 2022 and ending on December 18, 2022, which is the first time in the history of the World Cup to be held in a Middle Eastern country.
2. Venue:
This World Cup will span 7 cities in Qatar, using 8 stadiums, and all of them are constant temperature courses, in order to host this World Cup, Qatar has specially installed air conditioning systems in all the playing venues, so that players can play in the most comfortable temperature.
The 7 cities are: Doha, Education City, Sport City, Lusail City, Al, Caliphate, and um.
The eight stadiums are: the Luthail Stadium with a capacity of 80,000 people, the 974 stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people, the Alturmama Stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people, the Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people, the Education City Stadium with a capacity of 45,350 people, the Albat Stadium with a capacity of 60,000 people, the Al Janub Stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people, and the Khalifa International Stadium with a capacity of 68,030 people. The 2022 World Cup final will be played at Qatar's largest football stadium, the Lucerne Stadium.
3. Participating Countries
A total of 10 teams have been confirmed to win the quota, except for the host Qatar, the other 7 teams are from Europe, they are Serbia, Spain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Germany, and two are the traditional South American giants Brazil and Argentina. Except for the European qualifiers, only the play-offs remain, the qualifiers on other continents are not over, and due to Africa's special two-legged knockout mechanism, it is difficult to say who can qualify.
In fact, the situation in Asia is already very clear, and saudi arabia, Iran and South Korea are basically not too much problem in obtaining direct promotion places. Japan and Australia will compete for a straight-up spot and a place in an intercontinental play-off, with the last qualifier play-off against North American teams and this qualifier play-off against South American teams, which can be more than a star and a half. Teams competing in this year's South American play-offs will be among the four teams colombia, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, and if Japan and Australia fall into the play-offs, it will be a blessing to themselves. For the national football team, the World Cup journey has not yet begun, and now it is needless to say that it is striving for the third place in the group, even if it wins the third place in the group, it may not even be able to play Venezuela, the weakest in South America.
Aside from Asia, the European division is of course the biggest concern for fans, and it is surprising that Portugal and Italy are divided into the same half. Combining the strength of the two teams and the recent state of the players, Italy still has some advantages, after all, as the two core players in Portugal, Ronaldo and B Fee, are struggling to play in Manchester United, and this year's March game is not only related to the future of the Portuguese national team, but also related to the points situation of Manchester United this season.
4. Whether it can be held as scheduled
Due to the ravages of the epidemic, the Copa America and the European Cup, which were supposed to be held in 2020, have been postponed to 2021, and the current epidemic situation is even worse than before. With the continuous changes of the new crown virus, the whole of Europe has almost been crushed by The Michael, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany and other countries have become the hardest hit areas of the epidemic, and 90% of the places on the map of the United States have been red, in such a severe situation, whether this year's World Cup can be held as scheduled is still a problem.
The World Cup is different from the European Cup, which is a major event in global football, but in the face of the epidemic, even the Olympic Games have had to be postponed. Now the scope of the epidemic is too wide, and almost all the teams in europe's five major leagues have been spared, and each team has 4-5 players who have hung up the exemption card due to the new crown virus. If the epidemic is still so serious at that time, whether it can put together a set of first starts is a problem.