2022 World Cup: Qualifying congestion affects draw plans
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2022 World Cup: Qualifying congestion affects draw plans

The Hindu  

The tournament draw for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar could be made before the 32-team lineup is complete, or be delayed for two months, after FIFA rescheduled a qualifying playoff on Thursday. FIFA said its council agreed to push back a four-team intercontinental playoff round from March 2022 to June that year due to fixture congestion caused by the coronavirus pandemic. World Cup qualifying in South America and Asia has fallen behind schedule after games were postponed in March and June. READ| Brazil, a five-time World Cup winner, has the world-’s second-highest officially recorded death total for COVID-19.

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