{"id":1174007,"date":"2022-08-11T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/world-cup-set-to-start-one-day-earlier-than-planned\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:13:26","slug":"world-cup-set-to-start-one-day-earlier-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/world-cup-set-to-start-one-day-earlier-than-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Set To Start One Day Earlier Than Planned |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The World Cup is set to start one day earlier than planned on Sunday, 20 November with hosts Qatar taking on Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The Group A opener was due to be played on 21 November at 16:00 GMT, as the third match of the competition.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The opening match of the tournament was to be Senegal against the Netherlands at 10:00, earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the administrative arm of the world governing body Fifa has submitted a proposal to move the Qatar game.<\/p>\n<p>It followed discussions with Qatar and their opponents Ecuador, after receiving a request from the South American confederation Conmebol.<\/p>\n<p>It fits in with the tradition of either the hosts or the holders being involved in the opening match.<\/p>\n<p>The final decision will be made by the bureau of the Fifa council, which comprises the six confederation presidents, plus Fifa president Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>If it is approved as expected, it would not change the release dates for players, and Senegal against the Netherlands would be switched to 16:00 on the Monday, given only three games would be played instead of the present four.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Group B match with Iran, which is being played at 13:00 on 21 November, would be unaffected, as would Wales&#8217; opening match against the United States of America at 21:00 on the same date.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup is set to start one day earlier than planned on Sunday, 20 November with hosts Qatar taking on Ecuador. The Group A opener was due to be played on 21 November at 16:00 GMT, as the third match of the competition.\u00a0The opening match of the tournament was to be Senegal against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,473,6411,10549,618,2027,784],"class_list":["post-1174007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-day","tag-earlier","tag-planned","tag-set","tag-start","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}