The International Football Association "FIFA" (FIFA) announced - today, Tuesday - that 24 teams out of 32 will participate in the FIFA World Cup, which will be held later this year;
Its camps will be located within 10 kilometers in and around the Qatari capital (Doha).
FIFA stated that due to the compact nature of the Qatar World Cup, which opens on November 21 at Al Bayt Stadium and concludes with the final match on December 18 at Lusail Stadium, teams or fans will not need domestic flights to go to the matches.
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“The players will have more time to train and rest during the tournament, and they will be able to experience the excitement that will overwhelm the country due to the convergence, especially as players and enthusiastic fans from all 32 countries will gather in one region,” said Colin Smith, FIFA’s chief tournament and events official. .
Among the teams whose camps are located a little further away: Germany, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.
FIFA also stated that it and the LOC are carrying out "unprecedented care to protect workers' rights and welfare in a total of 159 hotels, including those that will host national teams", in cooperation with trade unions, independent monitors and the International Labor Organization.
The World Cup in Qatar is one of the unique tournaments of its kind in the history of the World Cup, as it is the first version of the tournament that will be held on 8 stadiums close to each other in a way that enables the public and the media to follow more than one match from inside the stadium in one day.
Qatar has also facilitated and diversified the means of transportation to the stadiums, in light of the presence of stations for the "Rail" metro line near most of the stadiums, which were designed according to international standards.