FIFA: Qatar World Cup to be moved from traditional June/July slot 
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will not be held in June and July, football's world governing body FIFA has announced.
FIFA president
Sepp Blatter has long insisted it would be impractical to hold the 2022 tournament during a Middle East summer.And now Blatter's right-hand man Jerome Valcke has gone a step further,
suggesting in an interview with Radio France
the finals will be played between mid-November and mid-January.He said: "The dates for the World Cup (in Qatar)
will not be June-July. To be honest, I think it will be held between November 15 and January 15 at the latest."If you play between November 15 and the end of December that's the time when the weather conditions are best,
when you can play in temperatures equivalent to a warm spring season in Europe, averaging 25 degrees. That would be perfect for playing football."
The decision to award Qatar the tournament was widely criticised at the time of the 2010 vote,
and the apparent confirmation of a winter tournament will
inevitably have a huge knock-on effect on club football.Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore told Sky Sports News back in August it would be "nigh on impossible" to move the finals to winter,
though there has been no official response yet to Valcke's latest pronouncement.
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