REVEALED: Qatar’s very credible plans to WIN the 2022 World Cup

You were shocked when Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.

Well, prepare to be gobsmacked when they actually go and win the tournament. It really could happen. And here’s why…

1 Ranked 112th in the world, Qatar is currently undertaking a mind-blowing $200bn football project to buy its way to world-class status by 2022

2 And as the richest country on Earth per capita, cash isn’t a problem

They’ve already recruited the world’s best players, coaches and sports administrators. Including former Spanish star Xavi, who will assist coaching the national side all the way to the 2022 finals.

Ominously, Xavi says: “This is the biggest project in world football and the players are already making huge strides.”

3 Academy scouts have been scouring all schools in Qatar, inputting every child’s skill level into a database

From the age of 11, 400 children are selected for pre-Academy teams.

4 The Aspire Academy is where Qatar’s young talent is hot-housed

A world class facility, it’s run by Ivan Bravo, Real Madrid’s former director of strategy. Here, 240 Qatari children live, learn and train to become footballers, 24/7. All paid for by the state.

5 Experienced coaches from Spain and Germany have already been recruited

Manuel Neuer and Iker Casillas coached their young keepers. While Pele and Maradona are among former players to have coached the kids. So it’s only a matter of time before this legend gets a call…

6 Qatar also runs a huge foreign scouting programme

Aspire Football Dreams screens 500,000 children a year from Africa, central America and Asia. The elite are selected to train at the academy in Doha and in Senegal.

7 Expect them all to become naturalised Qataris by the time the World Cup starts

That’s what wages of $800,000 a year does.

8 The squad that will form the core of the 2022 World Cup side is being coached by Felix Sanchez, the former youth coach at Barcelona’s La Masia academy

He developed this bloke…

9 Aspire bought Belgian second division club KAS Eupen as a place to toughen up its young talent

Six Qatari youngsters are already in the side. The academy are also in the process of buying Spanish club, Cultural y Deportivo Leonesa. Oh, and they already own a small French club called PSG.

10 The Aspire Academy have already thumped a Brazilian youth team 6-1 and thrashed the cream of Man United’s youth academy 5-1

So inbetween the John Lewis Christmas ad of December 2022, don’t be surprised to see this image..

By GRAHAM WRAY