Qatar’s World Cup 2022 Fantasy Playground

May 3rd, 2010 | by: chris |

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It’s off to see the future, and then the wizard.

Qatar has no time for World Cup 2010 – they’re looking to the future and beyond with their futuristic World Cup 2022 bid. It’s an awfully tantalizing bid for a number of reasons – billions of them, in fact; reasons which make it seem an awfully likely candidate, particularly if FIFA conduct business as usual.

With the bids in full swing, the campaign committee released the first five stadium designs. Jaws at the ready.

Before getting too far, there is, of course, a slight problem: climate. And if the maths of global warming proponents mean anything, Qatar during the summer months of 2022 will make the earth’s mantle seem a shady elm. No matter: air conditioned stadiums. Or stadia. However you prefer.

Each of the five stadiums will harness the power of the suns rays to provide a cool environment for players and fans by converting solar energy into electricity that will then be used to cool both fans and players at the stadiums.

Cool concept.

Each stadium has its own YouTube video on the bid page with a brief description. Some, like the Al-Rayyan Stadium, already exist and will simply be spruced up for the occasion and, at least in the case of the Al-Rayyan, will be spruced back down once the tournament ends. What’s a month?

Sepp’s backed the Qatar bid under a shit storm of handshake accusations – Sepp? never! – and the decision will come in 214 days. Here’s to hoping they build these whatever the outcome.

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JC

Qatar’s bid is only a publicity stunt to show the world what it is capable of. Extreme heat, conservative laws & size of the country are just a few issues to tackle.
http://japan.worldcupblog.org/ Aidan

Qatar is hosting the Asian Cup in January next year, so we’ll get a preview of some of the stadia and facilities then…although maybe not he aircon since it will be January!
http://fm-llm.theoffside.com/ t’OM

How outrageous is the 5th stadium?
http://torontofc.theoffside.com Mark

Wow, really crazy stadiums. Could they actually pull those off? Would be pretty cool to see.
Seth

Qatar FTW!
Cate

Anyone notice that one of the Al-Rayyan stadium tv screens showed a CNN news guy with the caption “shirtless Obama”?
pencho15

I am very excited about the possibility of seeing the world cup of 2022 played in Qatar, the stadiums they could build and the curiosity of watching this tournament played in a new region and in such a small country are very attractive to me, I will be supporting them when the hosts are selected.
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Every time I see computer-animated stadiums, I feel massive kinda retardation is coming my way. No questions, they're looking great. But I guess even Qatar feels the urge to build economically reasonable stadiums without 140% of the population has to attend any game there.
Bense235

And to add: Germans must have designed that. Not as if they're not highly crafty and competitive. But an openeing game between Qatar and Germany… ah, you're dreaming of it. Their flags are all over the final 1 minute.