I have decided to
discuss what I believe to be a mistake in awarding the 2022 Soccer World Cup to
Qatar. I believe that the people at the International governing body of soccer,
FIFA, have caught themselves up in globalizing for the sake of globalizing.
FIFA has chosen to sacrifice the quality of play, and safety of the players for
the sake of breaking into a new market. The main reason why Qatar was not a
good choice is that it is too hot. With an average temperature of about 105
degrees, it is simply too hot to play. The main purpose of my paper will be to
steer the direction of the policy in the direction I think it should be going
by showing that all of their solutions to the heat problem are not reasonable.
So I guess I am using the “what is good?” to answer, “what should we do?”
However, since my audience is the BYU community, I will probably have to answer
“what exists?’ by explaining what the globalization of soccer means.
I will be
persuasive/convincing by going through some of the problems with having the
World Cup in Qatar. Such problems include: overwhelming heat, basic human
rights violations, low population, expensive accommodations for traveling fans,
and much, much more. I will also go
through all of the proposed solutions to the problems and display how they are
incorrect. This is a very important issue right now that must be thoroughly thought
out and resolved.
Whoa I totally agree with you! Soccer dehydrates you super fast and having the World Cup in 105 degree weather would probably kill somebody.
ReplyDeleteNice idea! I don't even know where Qatar is but if it's really that hot then we shouldn't have a world cup there. This is an issue that I didn't even know about but your blog post made me start thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteYou make a pretty good point. I don't remember much of where the location is outside of the middle east area but Qatar may not be the best decision. It would be interesting to hear all the ways you could prove that.
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