Who's your favorite Qatar player?

Mine is Billy Corgan!

The problem isn't that the USA didn't get the World Cup.  If Australia, Korea, or Japan got the tourney, we'd all be sad, but it wouldn't so horrible. Those are places we (as soccer fans) want to visit and experience.  No one "whining" about the bid deision has a problem with the World Cup in the Middle East. If Turkey, Egypt or Saudi Arabia landed the World Cup, the same sentiment applies. Those nations have soccer history, and interesting cultures to explore.

The problem is that Qatar just sucks. Their soccer claim to fame is the worst miss in recent memory.

They haven't won a match in the Asian Confederation tournament since 1988.  Most of their players are Brasilian and African rejects who are naturalized into the Qatari system. I'm not saying a nation has to be good at soccer to host the World Cup, but Qatar has nothing to show that would imply they take the game seriously.

Their tiny acreage of land has very little redeeming culture. According to wiki travel, things to do include going to the mall, kite surfing and cruising over sand dunes.  Every other nation bidding for the World Cup offered much more than that. I'm actually not worried about their alcohol ban, hatred of gays, hatred of jews, lack of women's rights, slave labor or lack of a single stadium ready for the World Cup. Those "issues" will magically disappear for a month when soccer time arrives.

It's obvious to the world that Qatar doesn't deserve the World Cup. It's also obvious some kind of back handed corruption was involved, as delegates from Nigeria and Tahiti were excluded from the voting process due to bribery.  All the world can do is get on with it, and laugh when Qatar exits the tournament with a negative 15 goal differntial.