People celebrate in front of a screen that reads "Congratulations Qatar" after FIFA announced that Qatar will be host of the 2022 World Cup in Souq Waqif in Doha Nike Shox Avenue Femme Pas Cher , in this December 2, 2010 file picture. The 2022 World Cup will not be held in Qatar because of the scorching temperatures in the Middle East country, FIFA Executive Committee member Theo Zwanziger said on September 22 Nike Shox Femme Pas Cher , 2014. [PhotoAgencies] BERLIN - Qatar remained adamant it would host the 2022 soccer World Cup despite a FIFA Executive Committee member suggesting on Monday that the tournament would have to move because of scorching temperatures.
"The only question now is when, not if," Qatar 2022 communications director Nasser Al Khater said in a statement. "Summer or winter Nike Shox TLX Homme Pas Cher , we will be ready."
Theo Zwanziger, the former German football association (DFB) chief who now sits on the executive committee of world soccer's governing body, had said earlier that he felt the tournament would have to be held elsewhere.
"I personally think that in the end the 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar Nike Shox Avenue Homme Pas Cher ," he told Sport Bild. "Medics say that they cannot accept responsibility with a World Cup taking place under these conditions."
FIFA awarded the tournament to the tiny Middle Eastern country in a controversial decision in 2010, with the understanding that it would be held in the summer despite the searing heat.
Although oil and gas-rich Qatar has insisted that timetable is viable thanks to cooling technologies being developed for stadiums, training areas and fan zones Nike Shox 807 Homme Pas Cher , there is still widespread concern over the health of players and visiting fans.
"They may be able to cool the stadiums but a World Cup does not take place only there," Zwanziger said.
"Fans from around the world will be coming and travelling in this heat and the first life-threatening case will trigger an investigation by a state prosecutor.
"That is not something that FIFA Exco members want to answer for."
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FIFA officials, contacted by Reuters Nike Shox Current Homme Pas Cher , said Zwanziger was not giving the view of the all powerful Executive Committee.
"He is expressing a personal opinion and he explicitly says so," FIFA spokewoman Delia Fischer said. "We will not comment on a personal opinion."
Qatar organisers said they have already proved that cooling technologies that would be used at the World Cup work.
"We have proven that a FIFA World Cup in Qatar in the summer is possible with state-of-the-art cooling technology," said Al Khater.
"We have demonstrated that our cooling works in outdoor areas beyond stadiums. This summer we welcomed fans in Doha to an open-air Brazil 2014 Fan Zone with temperatures cooled to a comfortable 22 degrees Celsius.
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Despite the resources being thrown at high-tech cooling techniques, sceptism about Qatar's ability to stage a World Cup in the summer -- when temperatures can soar into the mid 40s Celsius -- has not gone away.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in May that awarding the World Cup to Qatar was a 'mistake' and the tournament would probably have to be held in the European winter.
"The Qatar technical report indicated clearly that it is too hot in summer, but the executive committee with quite a big majority decided all the same that the tournament would be in Qatar Nike Shox Homme Pas Cher ," he said.
FIFA is looking at the option of shifting the tournament to JanuaryFebruary 2022 or NovemberDecember 2022 - both of which would be unpopular because of disruption to the domestic seasons in Europe and around the world.
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa chaired a meeting to discuss the matter earlier this month.
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ROME, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index fell for the first time in half a year in July, pushed lower by falling prices for grains and cereals, FAO said Thursday.
The drop in the overall index was modest, just 0.8 percent, but it reverses a five-month trend of rising prices that erased nearly half the ground from a nearly-two-year period of falling prices that preceded it.
Grains and cereals, the largest component in the index, slipped 5.6 percent based on good weather conditions in wheat growing areas in the United States. The drop took place despite a slight rise in rice prices.
Prices for oils and fats also fell, retreating 2.8 percent. But all the other sectors saw prices rise, with dairy prices up 3.2 percent, meats trading 1.3 percent higher, and sugar prices jumping 1 percent.
FAO said with no fundamental change in the markets, it was possible the fall in the index in July could be short-lived.
The next installment of the FAO index, which is based on a basket of 55 goods and 73 price quotations in five major food commodity groups, will be released on Sept. 8.
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The Lao kickboxers will travel to China on Thursday ahead of the event. The Muay Lao Federation will use its budget to support the Lao fighters in joining the friendly kickboxing event.
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