Global Leadership and Change: Implications of 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

Global leadership and
change

Introduction
• 2022 FIFA World Cup is a quadrennial international football
championship associated with men's football players in respects
to international teams. The hosting country is Qatar in the
year 2022 and the date scheduled between 21 November to 18
December. From the secondary research it has been evaluated
that Qatar FIFA 2022 is the first ever world cup that is
establishing in Arab as well as in the Muslim-majority country.
• Interestingly, the impact of this World Cup has been noticed in
both the aspects for instance, locally and globally. The study
focuses to explain certain consequences that have been
addressed with the implications of 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
In addition, specific and persisting loopholes that are associated
with the World Cup have been exhibited in the current study.

long terms consequences of Qatar World Cup 2022
• As opined by Al-Emadi et al., (2017),
The Federation Internationale de
Football Association (FIFA) has bestowed the small Persian Gulf State of Qatar
with the opportunity to host the 2022 World Cup Finals. With this decision the
desire of Qatar to become a Global Centre for excellence sport has been optimized.
The need of this kind of opportunity was indispensable stated, as a dearth of
academic research has been observed on sports in Qatar.
• Argued by different authors, Qatar’s sports engagements especially due to the
desire of promoting nation, has been focused on certain themes for instance,security and peace, well being and health as well as modernization and
progress. Henceforth, the cultural form of powers has become significantly
progressive for the state of Qatar to extend and preserve their international or
global influences, prestige and attractiveness. As per the research, national
government has drawn a cultural form on the sports as an integral aspects of
‘soft
power strategy’.
• Notwithstanding from the facts, such events have unrivalled capacity in order to
capture the gigantic attentions of both the local and global aspects. This may
enable Qatar to gain potential momentous impacts on building their international
profile. Hence, it has been observed that the country would be able to successfully
mitigate its long term obstacles that are economically persisting.