MOSCOW, Aug 11 The International Football Federation (FIFA) unanimously approved the postponement the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from November 21 to November 20, the official website of the organization reports. The Qatar team will play with the Ecuador national team a day earlier — on Sunday November 20. «Qatar will play with Ecuador on Sunday, November 20, at 19:00 local The match and the opening ceremony of the tournament at the Al-Bayt Stadium were rescheduled by one day following the unanimous decision of the FIFA Council Bureau, therefore the match between Senegal and the Netherlands was rescheduled from 13:00 to 19:00 on Monday , November 21,» the message says. The decision is due to the fact that the host team of the tournament, according to the established tradition, should open the championship, however, in the current schedule, before the game between Qatar and Ecuador, there were matches between the Netherlands — Senegal and England — Iran, since in April fifa p Rescheduled the start of the meeting between Qataris and Ecuadorians in Group A from 13:00 to 19:00 Moscow time. In the event of a schedule change, Qatar's meeting with Ecuador will take place a day earlier and will again become the first in the tournament. The decision to change the tournament schedule was made by voting with the participation of FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the heads of six football confederations. . The world championship will be held without the participation of the Russian national team: at the end of February, FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) published a joint statement according to which Russian teams and clubs were suspended from participation in all international competitions for an indefinite period.
