No Dream League in Qatar
Qatar football officials have denied categorically a report that
they were planning a lucrative world club championship every second summer on
the road to the 2022 World Cup.
The ‘Dream Football League’ was supposedly being launched next
month, according to The Times. It would be backed by the Qatari
royal family and elite clubs such as Manchester United and Barcelona could be
offered as much as US$261m.
Not true, according to French spoof website which accused The
Times of ‘lifting’ its fiction – quoted from a non-existent source
balled Agence-Transe-Presse – and not true according to the
Qatar Football Association and Qatar 2022.
A QFA statement said: “With regard to the story published in
today’s edition of The Times newspaper . . . the Qatar Football Association and
other Qatari football entities can confirm that we have no involvement in any
such initiative and have heard nothing to suggest such a concept is genuine.”
