Drift into a winter (http://www.worldcupblog) World Cup

One of the main concerns, if not the major concern of the Qatar World Cup was this small question of its location - a place very, very hot. Summers are scorching and although their great promise of football world was stages of air conditioners, as many have said: you cannot state Qatar air. Although they damn well could try.

In this spirit, the figures were popping up to advocate a winter World Cup touting its possibilities. Only they are not just numbers, they are powerful figures, with titles and weight behind them; names such as Beckenbauer and Platini.

And as much as we can not like him, the most powerful name of all: Sepp.

Blatter has said at a press conference in Abu Dhabi, where the club World Cup takes place he too supported a winter World Cup.

"It is important to play when the climate is appropriate and I think about football, not only the fans, but the players," he said.

"Personally, I think it would be preferable that it plays in the winter... but it is not easy to achieve."

I am fascinated by this for one reason and one reason only; that has nothing to do with the heat, but rather one of the most underestimated the World Cup: mid-season form.

It is not some erroneous or derived from media buzzword. It is very, very real. But also as real as the fact that the majority of the best players in the World Cup, those exercising their craft Club in Europe, participate in the World Cup after an exhausting domestic season, many of them with little left in the tank but adrenaline and childhood dreams. Quite often, but far from being perfect.

Now imagine you take these players, the best in the world and launch in the cup of the world in peak fitness, shape tip and a topped-up tank with dazzle the world. In summer the World Cup can be tradition, but once, only once, we see a winter Cup football world itself. It is unlike anything we have ever seen before on several fronts.