World Cup 2022: Dates, draw, schedule, kick-off times, final for Qatar tournament Football News
The current champions are France, who won their second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia. The season will start a week earlier than normal on August , with 16 matchdays taking place up to the weekend of November 12/13, before the tournament kicks off on November 20. Mario Gotze would score the winner with a brilliantly taken goal to give Germany a 1-0 victory and their fourth World Cup victory. Like 1990, this final will best be remembered as one of the dirtiest finals ever, with 14 yellow cards being shown, along with one red card to John Heitinga in the 109th minute. This would prove to be crucial too, with Andres Iniesta scoring the winning goal seven minutes later. In November 2021, Australian footballer Josh Cavallo, who came out as gay in October 2021, said he would be afraid to travel to Qatar to play. Nasser Al Khater, head of the tournament's organising committee, replied that Cavallo would be "welcome" in the country. On 7 June 2015, Phaedra Almajid, the f...