{"id":4087,"date":"2015-03-20T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2015-03-20T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:26:52","slug":"world-cup-2022-final-in-qatar-on-december-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/world-cup-2022-final-in-qatar-on-december-18\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2022 final in Qatar on December 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Qatar-World-Cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4088\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Qatar-World-Cup.jpg\" alt=\"Qatar World Cup\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>The final match of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played on Dec. 18, the country\u2019s national holiday.<br \/>\nFifa spokesman Walter De Gregorio confirmed the date on Thursday, but did not say when the tournament would start.<br \/>\nThe governing body\u2019s executive committee prefers a 28-day tournament \u2014 starting Nov. 21 \u2014 but did not make a decision in the opening session of its two-day meeting.\u00a0 De Gregorio said the executive committee could confirm the kickoff date on Friday.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a major step because finally we know and we can move forward,\u201d De Gregorio said in a hastily arranged statement at Fifa headquarters.<br \/>\nThe November-December option was expected after being recommended by a Fifa-appointed task force which met last month in Doha, Qatar. The task force sought to take Fifa\u2019s lucrative event out of the Qatari summer heat in the June-July period when World Cups are traditionally played.\u00a0 Fifa President Sepp Blatter then said he preferred a Sunday, Dec. 18, final. Every World Cup final since 1966 has been played on a Sunday.<br \/>\nBy rejecting UEFA\u2019s preferred Dec. 23 final, a Friday, the Fifa executive committee helped protect the English Premier League\u2019s traditional Dec. 26 program.\u00a0 A 28-day World Cup, four days fewer than usual, would cut the time clubs must release players to national teams.<br \/>\nEuropean clubs and leagues, which must shut down for several weeks in the middle of their seasons, have been the strongest opponents of an end-of-year tournament.<br \/>\nQatar bid to stage the tournament in June-July when it was chosen as host in December 2010.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/world-cup-2022-final-in-qatar-on-december-18\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final match of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played on Dec. 18, the country\u2019s national holiday. Fifa spokesman Walter De Gregorio confirmed the date on Thursday, but did not say when the tournament would start. The governing body\u2019s executive committee prefers a 28-day tournament \u2014 starting Nov. 21 \u2014 but did &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}