World Cup in Qatar????

[Fafnir]

Politics in FIFA are never going to be helpful for the US. Just the reality of the world.

[barefacedmonk]

If, by establised, the author means, "rich/western like countries" then he couldn't be more wrong. Qatar is developed country now with a very high standard of living.

My best guess is that the author means countries with established soccer infrastructure. In which case, he'll be surprised to find out that FIFA often uses WC hosting as a tool to give a jolt to the development of said infrastructure in order to stimulate the sport on a national and regional level.

Exactly....plus the Qatari officials plan to donate the upper tiers and parts of the disassembled stadium to countries with less developed sports infrastructure.