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FIFA has made official what had already quest''oggi & agrave; Early in March, finally confirming that the World Cup 2022 will be played in November and December, impacting on winter sports.
Friday 25 September 2015 4 minutes reading time
The 'governing body of world football decided that the twenty-second edition of the World Cup is disputer & agrave; from 21 November to 18 December, 2022.
Moving on from the traditional period June-July & egrave; necessary because the 'Event & egrave; It was awarded to Qatar, where in summer the average temperatures are around 40 & deg; C regarding the highest and 29 & deg; C regarding minimum.
At least, from the point of view of the disciplines of snow and ice, FIFA has chosen dates less penalizing than the proposal by Michel Platini. The Frenchman had even suggested to play the World Cup in January and February, then in the heart dell''inverno and just behind the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, burying in fact the season 2021 - '' 22 and pushing the FIS president Gian Franco Kasper expended because & eacute; There & ograve; He did not.
Finally escaped the danger pi & ugrave; large, the various federations of snow sports (FIS and Ibu), Ice (Isu and WCF) and the gut (Phil and IBSF) will have to & ograve; live with an early season in 2022 - '' 23 where the 'media attention & agrave general will; swallowed up by the World Cup football and especially with the serious risk of having started games at once with their competitions, with corresponding impact on the indices of 'listening and' appetibilit & agrave; event for sponsors.
The disciplines to be more penalized by the combination are biathlon, luge, bobsleigh and skeleton that - with existing calendars - would see superimposed on a slice of their World Cup season between 30% and 40%.
It would be even worse than the situation of curling, whose European championships (one of the highlights of their winter) are held usually in late November or early December. However, being indoor sports, it has for obvious reasons pi & ugrave; flexibility & agrave; compared to outdoor sports could possibly change its schedule with relative ease & agrave;
At least all sports will have space to talk about s & eacute; Since & eacute; 2023 World Championships in each discipline are required. You will see & agrave; if the various international federations decide adjustments to your schedule to fit all''ingombrante concurrently and minimize damage in terms of media exposure to the principle dell''inverno.
Nothing to do with the shambles of which will & agrave; victim just football, which will schedule & agrave; inevitably completely changed.
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