Qatar 2022: 26-player squads and the rest of the new features approved by FIFA for the upcoming World Cup

From the moment its bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup was launched, it was known that Qatar offered a refreshing opportunity for this tournament: to innovate, to offer novelty, to renew itself with stories told from new angles, and to offer a new way of life.

And so it will be. Every moment confirms that Qatar 2022 will not be a conventional edition of this tournament, due to circumstances of all kinds, from geographical, cultural and climatic, to statistical and sporting. Fans will have plenty of reasons to be surprised at this soccer festival.

So, with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 getting closer and closer to kicking off, the news that this tournament will offer continues to emerge. In the following paragraphs of this story you will discover the reasons that make this edition one full of new and fresh beginnings for the world of soccer and its millions of fans.

The mere fact that the FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar is already a novelty. Never before in history has this tournament been organized outside South America, Europe, North America, Central Asia or Africa: the Middle East is being given this golden opportunity to put itself in the eyes of the world.

The next new feature of the upcoming FIFA World Cup is that, for the first time in its 92-year history and 21 editions held to date, the tournament will not be played in May, June or July, but in November and December. The reason is due to climatic reasons: the temperature in Qatar during the middle of the year is so high that playing soccer is risky.

Also, Qatar 2022 will be the FIFA World Cup in which geographical barriers will be the thinnest and most surmountable. Never before in the history of this tournament have the venues where the matches will be