FIFA, Qatar finally make decision on alcohol sales at World Cup

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said Dhahi Khalfan had been misunderstood in media coverage. In response, Gargash clarified that Qatar's hosting of World Cup 2022 "should include a repudiation of policies supporting extremism & terrorism." In March 2021, an investigative report published by The Guardian used data from embassies and national foreign employment offices to estimate migrant worker death toll since World Cup was awarded to Qatar. Between 2010 and late 2020 over 6,500 migrant workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar.

Its name comes from the number of shipping containers used in its construction and Qatar's international dialing code. Some investigations found that Qatar sought an edge in securing hosting by hiring a former CIA officer turned private contractor, Kevin Chalker, to spy on rival bid teams and key football officials who picked the winner in 2010. Switzerland (quarter-finals 1954), Sweden (runners-up in 1958), Chile , South Korea , and Mexico (quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts. So far, South Africa has been the only host nation to fail to advance beyond the first round. Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final tournament. They are held within the six FIFA continental zones , overseen by their respective confederations.

Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups . All World Cup-winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory. An All-Star Team consisting of the best players of the tournament has also been announced for each tournament since 1998. There was no third place match in 1930; the two losing semi-finalists are ranked according to their overall records in the tournament.

Brazil, winners in 2002, were the first defending champions to play qualifying matches. As of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, twenty-one final tournaments have been held and a total of 79 national teams have competed. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France, and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain, with one title each. The World Cup final match is the last of the competition, and the result determines which country is declared world champions. If after 90 minutes of regular play the score is a draw, an additional 30-minute period of play, called extra time, is added.

The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation, compete for the title at venues within the host nation over about a month. And once again it winning the Cup was just one step too far because of two Argentinian goals in extra-time. The Netherlands would not reach the final again until 2010, which they would again lose.

On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself. With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England.

West Germany’s didn’t start perfectly either, with a 2-1 loss to Algeria in a result that shocked everyone. Dutch Total Football took over the tournament in 1974, with Johan Cruyff leading the way. During the second group stage they had destroyed Argentina 4-0, and then beat East Germany and the mighty Brazil 2-0. World Cup They would meet Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller and West Germany in the final. No one gave Germany a chance, and it appeared it would be a rout after Hungary went 2-0 up in eight minutes. But they do not call this game ‘The Miracle of Bern’ for nothing, and West Germany quickly got on level terms after 18 minutes.

For each tournament, FIFA decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand, generally based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams. FIFA also organises international tournaments for youth football (FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup), club football , and football variants such as futsal and beach soccer . The latter three do not have a women's version, although a FIFA Women's Club World Cup has been proposed. Men's football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932. Unlike many other sports, the men's football tournament at the Olympics is not a top-level tournament, and since 1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players. The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war.