US disappointed; fan says Qatar too small

Thu, 02 Dec 2010

Washington - The United States football organization said Thursday it was let down by FIFA's decision to reject US Soccer's bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

Instead, the ruling body chose the small Persian Gulf country of Qatar.

"There's no way around it: I am disappointed," wrote Sunil Gulati, president of US Soccer, on the group's website.

"Millions of US soccer fans worked hard to bring the World Cup to our country. To come up short is very difficult to take," he said.

A fan interviewed by CNN expressed astonishment at the choice, saying that the financially most successful World Cup ever was the 1994 edition held in the United States.

"I can't believe they chose a country the size of Connecticut ... with only one city," he said of Qatar.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/356315,fan-qatar-too-small.html.