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Mohammed Yousry Murshid
Friday 25 December 2020
12:07 pm
FIFA’s decision to cancel the upcoming U-20 and 17-year-old World Cups raises questions about the future of the FIFA Club World Cup, to be held next February.
And they qualified for the championship Al-Ahly, Bayern Munich, Auckland City, New Zealand, Al-Duhail, Qatar, Ulsan Hyundai and Tigris Unal, Mexico, while waiting for the South American champion.
“As a result of the Covid-19 epidemic, the FIFA Council office decided to cancel the 2021 editions of the Men’s U-20 World Cup and the U-17 World Cup,” FIFA said in an official statement published on Thursday. .
He continued: “It became clear that the world situation had not adapted to a sufficient level to meet the challenges associated with hosting both tournaments, including the viability of the relevant qualifying tracks.”
FIFA did not announce any decisions related to the FIFA Club World Cup hosted by Qatar’s capital Doha next February, after the tournament was postponed in early December.
The postponement of the tournament to the new date was caused by the lack of resolution of 4 places for the continental champions, since only 3 teams qualified for the tournament, so FIFA decided to postpone it until next February.
Experts in the health, safety and competition sectors discussed during a seminar through the application of “Zoom” entitled “Organizing major sporting events in light of the Covid-19 crisis” reported by the German News Agency, and mentioned what can be done to organize sporting events in the future, especially the World Cup in light of the epidemic. Global.
The “bubble” idea put forward by Germany gained prominence after the successful experiment of completing the European Champions League and the AFC Champions League.
Last April, German virologist Alexander Kekule suggested creating a “special bubble” for players to complete the German League, which is a specialized quarantine that guarantees limited and safe movement for all participants within a range limited to residence, fields training facilities and stadiums, to ensure the safety of all players, organizers and others during participation in the tournament. .
Provides the use of safe transportation, regular sterilization of all championship stadiums, training sites, and media facilities, as well as assigning medical teams to stadiums during the competition period.
Qatar hosted Western competitions and then obtained the right to organize the same events for East Asia to determine the Asian Champions League champion to conduct 7900 examinations, and the percentage of positive cases did not exceed 1.7%.
It seems that the injury rate and financial ability to implement the bubble idea is the primary motivation for FIFA not to cancel the World Cup for clubs in Qatar and stick to its establishment, unlike the World Cup. for juveniles and juveniles.
The number of matches is also the lowest compared between the youth and youth championships, a strong motivation and an important factor in the decision of FIFA, as the number of matches in the World Youth Championship is 52 with the participation of 24 teams, unlike the FIFA World Cup where 7 teams play only 8 matches, which fits with the idea of the bubble.
In 2021, Indonesia and Peru would host the Youth and Youth World Cup, to cancel this version and grant them the right to host the two tournaments in 2023.
It should be noted that all continental competitions during the Crown and Major League pandemic except the French League were completed and completed with the exception of the two South American championships, specifically “Libertadores”.
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