That there is an organised and concerted campaign against FIFA World Cup 2022 host country Qatar is as clear as daylight. But said campaign has spectacularly failed in keeping the fans from voting with their feet.
Match tickets for the 2022 edition of football’s (and arguably world sport’s) most attended and watched event has already crossed 2.95 million, overtaking Russia 2018, when just over 2.4m tickets were sold across the whole tournament.
“2.95mn tickets had been sold up to Sunday’s opening day,” AFP quoted a FIFA spokesman as having said.
“Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Mexico, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, France, India and Brazil were the top markets.”
FIFA president Gianni Infantino revealed Sunday that the tournament has helped push revenues over the past four years to a record $7.5 billion.
FIFA earned record revenues of $7.5 billion in the four years of commercial deals tied to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the governing body of football declared Sunday.
The World Cup will see 64 matches played over 29 days.
