Qatar was supposed to be too small, too hot, and too controversial to welcome the World Cup. Soccer officials pushed it through anyway.
—in the desert, in air-conditioned stadiums, in the middle of summer.
Never mind that temperatures would soar above 105 degrees in downtown Doha. Or that none of the state-of-the-art climate-controlled stadiums existed yet. Or that Qatar’s national team had never even been to a World Cup. The FIFA voters had spoken. The world’s largest sporting event was heading to a country roughly the size of Jamaica with the population of Brooklyn.
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