The prospect of moving the event from its traditional June and July slot has angered winter sports federations because of a possible clash with that year’s Winter Olympics. PHOTO: AFP
“We are starting the consultations to bring it to the winter time,” Blatter told reporters in Abu Dhabi, where he will attend the under-17 World Cup final. “It can only be done in November-December, not January-February.”
The prospect of moving the event from its traditional June and July slot has angered winter sports federations because of a possible clash with that year’s Winter Olympics.
Winter sports federations and broadcasters argue that a high-profile football event clashing with their own seasons would dent television audiences and revenues.
But putting the staging of the World Cup back to the end of the year would appease them, while also meaning that the tournament would interfere with the 2022-23 football season rather than 2021-22.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 9th, 2013.
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