2022 World Cup: Fifa explores adding Kuwait, Oman as co-hosts with Qatar

FIFA maintains the rush to make the 2022 World Cup 48 teams, thinking about Kuwait and Oman turning into co-hosts with Qatar, which remains at the center of a complicated diplomatic stand-off with several Arab neighbors. Qatar’s infrastructure is already stretched for the Middle East’s first World Cup, and FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to include 16 more nations in the 32-team match. That’s too many video games for the eight stadiums unfold over just a 30-mile radius in Qatar, a tiny country with only 2.7 million people, maximum of them overseas employees.

Infantino has been lobbying for a multiplied 2022 match for months, even suggesting a few video games in Saudi Arabia, leading the sour isolation campaign with several Arab neighbors towards Qatar. Kuwait has been trying to mediate the crisis. FIFA is now looking at Kuwait and Oman – Infantino visited Kuwait last month and Oman on Sunday. Kuwait and Oman have remained neutral in the diplomatic conflict, which started in June 2017.