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Qatar ready to pip Australia for World Cup hub as government plays quarantine hardball – The World Game
Qatar is looming as the likely venue for the Socceroos’ remaining Group B FIFA World Cup qualifiers, unless the Australian government relaxes its strict quarantine…
Football Australia is lobbying ministers hard in a bid to secure some elasticity to the blanket two-week COVID quarantine period faced by all international arrivals.
To date there has been little indication any exemptions will be granted to offshore-based Socceroos and traveling parties from Jordan, Kuwait, Nepal and Taiwan.
Negotiations are ongoing, with Football Australia winning tacit approval from FIFA and the AFC to stage the hub here, whilst working feverishly to convince government to come…
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