World cup from Late-November to mid-December

by Yoogasreekumar| 11, Aug, 2022

FIFA is an international governing body of association football, beach football, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.   

 The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd running of the FIFA World Cup competition, the quadrennial international men’s football championship contested by the senior national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

      It is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world, and the second World Cup held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan. 

     In addition, the tournament will be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Due to Qatar’s intense summer heat, this World Cup will be held from late November to mid-December, making it the first tournament not to be held in May, June, or July; it will be played in a reduced timeframe of around 28 days.

      The first match played at the tournament will be contested between Senegal and the Netherlands at Al Thumama Stadium, Doha. The final is due to be held on 18 December 2022, which is also Qatar National Day. The reigning World Cup champions are France.

8 Groups to take Participate in FIFA

Group A                      Group B                  Group C                   Group D

A1 Qatar                   B1 England          C1 Argentina             D1 France

A2 Ecuador              B2 IR Iran           C2 Saudi Arabia       D2 Denmark

A3 Senegal               B3 USA                C3 Mexico                D3 Tunisia

A4 Netherlands        B4 Wales             C4 Poland                 D4 Australia

Group E                 Group F                   Group G                      Group H

E1 Spain                  F1 Belgium             G1 Brazil                 H1 Portugal

E2 Germany            F2 Canada              G2 Serbia                H2 Ghana 

E3 Japan                 F3 Morocco            G3 Switzerland       H3 Uruguay

E4 Costa Rica         F4 Croatia              G4 Cameroon         H4 Korea Republic

 

FIFA   

The Fédération internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in the rear of the headquarters of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) at the Rue Saint Honoré 229 in Paris on 21 May 1904. The founding members were the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by then-Madrid Football Club; the Royal Spanish Football Federation was not created until 1913), Sweden and Switzerland. Also, that same day, the German Football Association (DFB) declared its intention of affiliating through a telegram.

     FIFA is an international governing body of association football, beach football, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations; Russia was suspended in 2022. 

     These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America.

       The first president of FIFA was Robert Guérin. Guérin was replaced in 1906 by Daniel Burley Woolfall from England, by then a member of the association. The first tournament FIFA staged, the association football competition for the 1908 Olympics in London was more successful than its Olympic predecessors, despite the presence of professional footballers, contrary to the founding principles of FIFA. Membership of FIFA expanded beyond Europe with the application of South Africa in 1909, Argentina in 1912, Canada and Chile in 1913, and the United States in 1914. 

     The FIFA collection is held by the National Football Museum at Urbis in Manchester, England. The first World Cup was held in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In April 2022 FIFA launched FIFA+, an OTT service providing up to 40,000 live matches per year, including 11,000 women’s matches. It was also confirmed that FIFA would make available archival content, including every FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup match recorded on camera, together with original documentary content. Eleven Sports was later reported to be responsible for populating the FIFA+ platform with live matches.

Association football culture 

Association football culture refers to the cultural aspects surrounding the game of association football. As the sport is global, the culture of the game is diverse, with varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness in each country. In many countries, football has ingrained itself into the national culture, and parts of life may revolve around it. Many countries have daily football newspapers, as well as football magazines. Football players, especially in the top levels of the game, have become role models.

      Football has over 150 years of history. The rules were first written in England in 1863 – and since then a vast and diverse culture has emerged. The culture of football can be easily divided into how the players, fans and clubs see the sport. Held every four years, the FIFA World Cup is a “month-long festival of football”, with The Independent adding “its extreme popularity across the expanse of the globe giving it a uniquely universal audience”.

Fair Play 

     Fair Play is the name of a FIFA programme which aims to increase sportsmanship as well as prevent discrimination in the game of football. This also involves programmes to reduce racism in the game. The programme extends outside of football, in trying to support charities and other organisations which improve conditions around the world.

The principles of the Fair Play programme: 

1. Play fair (no diving)
2. Play to win but accept defeat with dignity
3. Observe the laws of the game
4. Respect opponents, teammates, referees, officials and spectators
5. Promote the interests of football
6. Honour those who defend football’s good reputation
7. Reject corruption, drugs, racism, sexism, violence, gambling and other dangers to our sport
8. Help others to resist corruptive pressures
9. Denounce those who attempt to discredit the sport
10. Use football to make a better world