Fifa president Sepp Blatter rejected on Tuesday media reports claiming he thought it may have been a mistake to choose Qatar as hosts for the 2022 World Cup.
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"No, it was not a mistake because by the rotation it was time to go to the Arabic world," Blatter told Reuters on the sidelines of an International Olympic Committee meeting in the Argentina capital.
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"And now here we are in the Arab world. It is not a very big country, but it is a very important one. So the decision was absolutely in the context of the politics of Fifa and especially in the context of the politics of this president."
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Blatter said the decision to play the tournament in the middle of the year was the mistake, not the selection of Qatar as hosts.
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"I am of the opinion, and this will be discussed by the (Fifa) Executive Board, now that to play in summer time in Qatar is not the right thing to do," he said.
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"We can play also in winter time and this is also a question of solidarity. If you never play in winter time the World Cup, you will be in the situation where all the countries around the equator and southern hemisphere... can never play in the winter.