{"id":997207,"date":"2022-02-19T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/19\/qatar-2022-could-be-the-best-ever-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:32:32","slug":"qatar-2022-could-be-the-best-ever-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/19\/qatar-2022-could-be-the-best-ever-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022 could be the best ever World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16371944355306-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Roberto Martinez\" title=\"Roberto Martinez\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Martinez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Belgium manager Roberto Martinez believes this year\u2019s World Cup in Qatar may prove to be one of the best ever.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is usually held in summer but will take place from 21 November to 18 December when temperatures will be a little cooler.<\/p>\n<p>That also means it will be at the midpoint of most leagues\u2019 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has always been a moan at international level that we always get the players when they are fatigued,\u201d Martinez told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this could be the best World Cup or international tournament that we have seen just because the physical level of the players will be at an optimum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone will be within 1,000 playing minutes having been just a few weeks after the start of the season \u2013 this is the perfect moment for players to go and play for their national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s side are one of the favourites to win this year\u2019s World Cup, which is likely to be the final chance for\u00a0Belgium\u2019s so-called \u2018golden generation\u2019\u00a0to claim a major trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to host the tournament in Qatar\u00a0has received plenty of criticism\u00a0because of concerns over the country\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tHFXWsIZvhw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Freedom Concerns: Speaker condemns police over \u2018rambo style\u2019 arrest of journalists (18-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHFXWsIZvhw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Martinez Belgium manager Roberto Martinez believes this year\u2019s World Cup in Qatar may prove to be one of the best ever. The tournament is usually held in summer but will take place from 21 November to 18 December when temperatures will be a little cooler. That also means it will be at the midpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":997208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,2457,784],"class_list":["post-997207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-qatar","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997207","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=997207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}