coming Asia again
This World Cup is the 22nd World Cup, and it is the second time that it has come to Asia to the land since 2002. The last World Cup in Japan and South Korea seems to be left with many positive things in everyone's memory. I hope that Qatar and FIFA can provide everyone with a fair competition environment in this World Cup in Asia.
The number of times the previous 21 World Cup was held in continents is as follows: Europe (11 times), South America (5 times), North America (3 times), Asia (1 time), Africa (1 time). In a sense, this also reflects the development status of football on different continents.
(photo) Qatar World Cup emblem
About Qatar World Cup
Qatar World Cup is the first World Cup held in the northern hemisphere in the winter, which also allows fans in the northern hemisphere to enjoy the four-year football feast in the cold winter.
The holding of this World Cup also helped Qatar enter the World Cup final circle for the first time, so Qatar has become the first team to enter the World Cup final circle for the first time by hosting the World Cup. At the same time, Qatar is also the only team among the 32 teams in this World Cup final circle to enter the World Cup for the first time. This undoubtedly brought a lot of controversy to the Qatar team, which made us have to question whether they were qualified to hold and participate in the World Cup finals because of their "money ability". However, it is not a good thing that "money ability" may give the players and fans of this World Cup a better viewing experience without affecting the fairness of the competition.
About Qatar Football
I believe that everyone’s previous understanding of Qatar may be "Morning". Qatar’s pillar industry is oil and natural gas and related petrochemical industries. It is the world’s largest producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas . At the same time, Qatar also has rich oil resources. Regarding Qatar's football industry, although the strength of the Qatar national team is limited, the Qatar rich people spend a lot of energy and time on football. I believe you must have seen some world-class teams with Qatar Airways printed on the jerseys on their chest advertisements. At the same time, the club chairman Nasser, who is familiar with like football star teams, is also Qatar .
(photo) Previously, the chest advertisement of the Barcelona jersey was Qatar Airways
Although the strength of the Qatar team is not as good as those regulars in the World Cup, under the guarantee of their strong economic foundation, Qatar football is also developing at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the 2019 Asian Cup , Qatar also won the Intercontinental Cup championship for the first time. From the perspective of the world ranking level of FIFA, Qatar, which had been hovering around 100, also made a qualitative leap in ranking after winning the Asian Cup in 2019, and has steadily risen to about 50th in the world.
(photo) Qatar won the Asian Cup championship in 2019
About the match system
The competition system of this World Cup still continues the previous 32 teams entering the final stage. The 32 teams are divided into 8 groups, with 4 teams in each group. Each team plays separately after 3 games in a single cycle and the other 3 teams in the group. After the group stage, the top two of each group enter the knockout stage of the top 16. In the whole process, there is no draw stage except for the group stage grouping. In the knockout stage, the first place in the odd array and the second place in the even array enter the upper half, the first place in the even array and the second place in the odd array enter the lower half, and the opponent is between adjacent groups, and the loser is eliminated until the championship is decided.
It should be noted that this World Cup is the last World Cup that adopts this competition system. The next North American World Cup will adopt the new World Cup competition system. At that time, 48 teams will enter the World Cup final stage. They will decide the teams in the group stage through two matches with the other two opponents in the group through two matches between the other two opponents in the group. The top two of the 16 groups will form the top 32 to compete for the knockout round.The author believes that the group stage of the new competition system has increased by chance and the number of knockout teams increases, and more teams will enter the final stage of the World Cup or even the knockout stage. However, the actual fairness, competitiveness and viewing benefits it brings are still unknown. In any case, I think there will be some obvious differences between the World Cup in the current competition system, so all fans will enjoy the Qatar World Cup, the World Cup under the old competition system!
ravada
In addition to saying goodbye to the old competition system, this World Cup may be the last World Cup for some of the superstars we are familiar with. The current football world has been dominated by Messi for many years. The Golden Ball Awards won, the terrifying personal data, the invincible offensive combination of the team (Barcelona MSN, Real Madrid BBC) and other football world have contributed too many incredible and exciting famous scenes to us in the past decade. In the past two years, as Messi (35 years old) and C Ronaldo (37 years old) have grown older and actively or passively leaving the team that has achieved a brilliant career, we also clearly feel that the competitive state of Messi and Ronaldo has already appeared some gap compared to their peak period. Even so, Messi was able to lead Argentina to Copa America in 2021. Argentina also showed a good form in the World Cup qualifiers. In comparison, Ronaldo's form may be slightly sluggish, and his recent form at the club is not satisfactory. In any case, for the peerless two men, they have ruled the football world for many years, and they have won many honors, and each led their national teams to win the championship in intercontinental competitions. If they can win a World Cup championship in the later stages of their career, it will be a great regret for any of them.
(photo) Messi led the team to win the 2021 American Cup championship
At the same time, in addition to the peerless two-charismatic Mero, many well-known players may also end their World Cup careers in this World Cup event, including Golden Globe winner Croatian Modric (37 years old), Uruguay 's two big strikers Cavani (35 years old) and Suarez (35 years old), Argentinian Angel Di Maria (34 years old), Polish player Lewandowski (34 years old), French team Giroud (36 years old) and Benzema (34 years old), Barcelona former player Danie Alves (39 years old). These familiar names are likely to appear in the World Cup for the last time.
(photo) Croatia international Modric
Of course, all participants in the World Cup, a four-year competition team, are opportunities that must be seized. Participating in the World Cup is both due to strength but also requires some luck. Many factors such as possible injuries, career time, or peak periods that are too short and just missed the World Cup cycle may cause many players to actually participate in the World Cup.
is also because of this. All players participating in the World Cup in any age will do their best in their precious playing time and will not leave any regrets for their unpredictable World Cup opportunities.
Finally, I hope this winter World Cup can bring us more joy about football and contribute wonderful, fair and high-level sports competitions to us!
