At 2022 World Cup, the global game will meet global warming

Qatar played Oman in a World Cup qualifier last month. (Ibraheem Al Omari/Reuters)In November 2022 — just a scant three years from now — comes the next World Cup, in Qatar. This will set up one of the extraordinary, epic collisions in recorded human history:

(I know what you’re thinking: Why can’t I write about Baker Mayfield shaving his handlebar mustache or LeBron James’s triple-double frenzy, or at least preview which nations are favored to win the World Cup? You want that stuff, go subscribe to The Athletic or marry Skip Bayless.)

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