qatar hosted the asian cup in '88 to mainly empty stadiums
australia on the other hand, have successfully hosted a fifa youth world cup, and later we hosted, and i quote, "best ever olympics"
fifa's ventures into the unknown are fanciful and will not pay off in attendences - just like in south africa where they had to give away tickets, but the natives didn't want a bar of it unless they could take their beloved noise polluting trumpets to the game
