Qatar 2022: eyeball to eyeball over football
It may have the World Cup, but Qatar also faces nine more years of gossip and grumbling – as Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem finds at a meeting of international football’s great and good.
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North Korea’s football association benefited from $100,000 in payments made by the disgraced former Fifa presidential candidate Mohammed Bin Hammam, Channel 4 News has learned.
Thousands of migrant workers have reportedly lost their lives working on World-Cup related construction in Qatar. But Qatar says no one has died. Who’s right?
Migrant workers employed on infrastructure projects in Qatar in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup are being treated like slave labour, according to unions.
The controversial 2022 World Cup in Qatar receives a makeover from a task force at football’s world governing body Fifa, which recommends playing the tournament in November and December.
David Cameron met the Emir of Qatar on Wednesday – a country that’s invested tens of billions of pounds in London – but a country that’s also accused of funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.
The head of the FA condemns Qatar’s PR firm after a Channel 4 News investigation finds it set up a sports blog that attacks critics of its World Cup bid.
We discovered another side to Qatar, a deeply conservative, authoritarian nation, personified in my mind by the man who stopped his car as we tried to take some pictures in a park.
The chairman of the FA, Greg Dyke, tells Channel 4 News the contest for the 2022 World Cup should be re-examined if there is evidence of corruption.
Fifa President Sepp Blatter admits to a Swiss journalist that it was “of course” a mistake to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar because of the heat the players will face. (video in French)
The 2022 football World Cup will not be held in Qatar in the summer months because of the heat, and is likely to take place between November and January, Fifa’s secretary general says.
It may have the World Cup, but Qatar also faces nine more years of gossip and grumbling – as Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem finds at a meeting of international football’s great and good.
The leader of the World Cup 2022 team is on a mission to enhance Qatar’s image. But that requires action to improve the lot of low-paid migrant workers in the country.
There are lots of ways moving the World Cup into the winter will be bad. You know about those. So Channel 4 News has found 10 reasons to be cheerful about a possible switch.
Qatar has been attacked for its treatment of migrant workers building facilities for the 2022 World Cup – but Qatar 2022 chief Hassan al-Thawadi says they are doing everything to protect their rights.
Fifa President Sepp Blatter tells a Zurich press conference “We have plenty of time concerning Qatar” and confirms the 2022 World Cup will take place there.