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Is World Cup 2022 moving football’s future further east?

The global nature of football has always been the heart of its popularity. Football is played and understood in pretty much every country, and nothing captures its universal appeal like the international following that the World Cup draws every four years. Yet something deeper appears to be afoot at the Qatar World Cup: The epicentre of a sport that has been dominated through its modern history by teams from Europe and South America may be shifting a bit to the east.