Recently, Ars è ne Wenger, FIFA’s development director and current Qatar beIN Sports consultant, was interviewed by the French newspaper “team”. In the interview, he talked about the process of hosting the Qatar World Cup in winter.
Wenger said: “I’ve been asked to think about this before [about hosting the World Cup in winter], but I don’t think it’s a bad idea.” However, such a development requires a thorough reform of the promotion and competition system. However, we are not talking about it today, and we are not moving in this direction, but towards a four-year cycle. ”
“the alternation between the World Cup, the increasingly important Women’s World Cup, the European Cup and the Club World Cup will be inevitable and we need to discuss in the future.”
“the World Cup will be extended in the winter, just like the current situation in Qatar. If we want to make football more popular, then we have to go to African countries, where it is impossible to host the Summer World Cup. But judging from the current situation of the World Cup in Qatar, I think it is feasible to continue to host the World Cup in winter. ”
“so, of course, we saw in this World Cup that there are a lot of teams at the physical level who don’t have time to prepare. But at least they all treated the game with real spiritual freshness, which was not always the case in the past. I remember that some teams were tired psychologically at the start of the World Cup because things went badly in the preparatory phase. ”