The image is purposefully portraying the amount spent as ludicrous. There was a thread on r/soccer about this yesterday, and that figure includes a shit load (like a couple hundred billion) of infrastructure improvements, hotels, airports ect that were going to be built regardless of the world cup. None of these expenses are included in the figures of the other hosts. Not out here trying to defend Qatar but I think this chart is disingenuous
Ah that makes a lot of sense, thank you for clarifying 😊 it’s one of those where there’s enough to criticise Qatar over regarding their worker safety etc without needing to dishonestly portray the figures.
it’s the drawbacks of hosting a world cup in a country that has zero infrastructure already in place. Countries like England, Spain, Italy and Germany wouldn’t have to nearly as much work besides some minor refurbishments and some more accomodation
The image is purposefully portraying the amount spent as ludicrous. There was a thread on r/soccer about this yesterday, and that figure includes a shit load (like a couple hundred billion) of infrastructure improvements, hotels, airports ect that were going to be built regardless of the world cup. None of these expenses are included in the figures of the other hosts. Not out here trying to defend Qatar but I think this chart is disingenuous
Ah that makes a lot of sense, thank you for clarifying 😊 it’s one of those where there’s enough to criticise Qatar over regarding their worker safety etc without needing to dishonestly portray the figures.
it’s the drawbacks of hosting a world cup in a country that has zero infrastructure already in place. Countries like England, Spain, Italy and Germany wouldn’t have to nearly as much work besides some minor refurbishments and some more accomodation