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The 2022 World Cup is set to begin in just over a week, and unfortunately for football fans headed to Qatar for the tournament, their accommodations may not be 5-star.
On Wednesday, photos of the “fan zone” in Doha, Qatar — which costs $200 per night to stay in — went viral as they revealed the locale to be nothing more than glorified barracks, as the “rooms” people will be staying in are actually just shipping containers.
Horrifying photos of the “fan zones” at the Qatar World Cup are really just barrack-like shipping containers
The “fan zone” rooms at the Qatar World Cup are actually just glorified shipping containers:
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Photos of the inside of the rooms show what the “accommodations” include:
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There will be a common area with beanbag chairs to watch the matches:
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The accommodations for fans are just one of many concerns heading into the World Cup. Not only will the temperature consistently be in the 90s but there will be foreign internationals having to adhere to Qatar’s absurdly strict laws.
There’s also the football element of it all, as many major international stars — such as Sadio Mane, Paul Pogba, Ngolo Kante, Diogo Jota, Memphis Depay, Timo Werner, Reece James, and more — are set to miss the tournament due to injury.
As the World Cup has inched closer, the feeling around it has only deteriorated as more players have gotten injured and further details about the accommodations have been made public. All of this is in addition to reports of thousands of people dying in the construction of various stadia in Qatar.
Even former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who was banned from the sport due to his corruption, has now come out and said that it was a mistake to give the World Cup to Qatar.
“The choice of Qatar was a mistake,” Blatter said in an interview with Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, via Sky Sports.
“At the time, we actually agreed in the executive committee that Russia should get the 2018 World Cup and the USA that of 2022. It would have been a gesture of peace if the two long-standing political opponents had hosted the World Cup one after the other.”
The 2022 World Cup will kick off on Sunday, November 20, and wrap up with the final on Sunday, December 18. Americans should have Friday, November 25 — the day after Thanksgiving — circled on their calendars, as the United States Men’s National Team, playing in their first World Cup since 2014, will be taking on England.