Without doubt; the FIFA quadrennial World Cup tournament is the Holy Grail of football. Yes, there are many other regional football tournaments involving countries or clubs that equally excite and enthrall many football lovers around the world. But nothing, without any doubts, beats the feeling of playing at the grandest stage of it all: the fifa football mundial in the name of your country; and perhaps, daydreaming of that glorious moment when you and your teammates hoist aloft, the Jules Rimet Trophy in global triumph!

That is the stuff that football dreams are made of and only a select few have experienced the sweet taste of such triumph. And even fewer, still, have been privileged to taste that victory more than once.

Thus, for most players, the opportunity to don their national colours and take to the pitch in a world cup match is as good as it gets. Winning the tournament is often a fat bonus!

One can therefore understand the tears, excitements, jubilations and celebrations that we had the opportunity of seeing as Brazilian players like Antony of Manchester United, Rachardlison of Tottenham Hotspur, and a few others exhibited when they realized that they were going to be part of the party in Qatar 2022!

While some of us have been left in disbelief as to the calibre and quality of players that have been left out of their respective national teams to the mundial; we are equally left astounded by the reasons given by their national teams coaches as to why some of such players wouldn't be gracing the football spectacle.

A few others will not be making it there either, not because their country wouldn't select them; but rather through the contrivance of the erstwhile FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the Qatar 2022 timing.

The list of injured players who are set to miss out of the showpiece include some of the most talented footballers in the world. For instance; the defending champions, France will be missing the services of two of their most reliable midfield lynchpins; Paul Pogba and N'golo Kante, who both played vital roles to their eventual success at the last mundial in 2018.

Similarly, Raphael Varane (France), Diogo Jota (Portugal), Reece James (England), Timo Werner (Germany) are all going to sit this one out too. But for the high esteem that their respective nations hold them, the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Sadio Mane would have missed out on Qatar 2022 too!

While it isn't strange for some players to be plagued with lengthy injuries; the timing of the world cup; at a time when the club football season around the world are just beginning to hot up have jeopardized the chances of these illustrious players who would have been trying to play themselves into contention for places in their respective national teams.

Qatar 2022 timing leaves more questions than answers. True that football is a global sport that's should be taken to all nooks and crannies of the world; but for Qatar, a country whose name leaves no imprint on the platform of global football, to have won the hosting bid ahead of England; can only mean that Sepp Blatter and his cohorts at FIFA at the time did it for the money.

Qatar may yet prove to the world that they have the money to host a global sport as the FIFA quadrennial World Cup tournament; however, the reports that have followed the host's abuse of human rights, unfair and inhumane treatments of migrant workers in a bid to showoff their oil money are costs that those workers and players whose hopes have been mortgaged because of the ill-timed tournament, shouldn't have to pay.

Anyways, Qatar 2022 World Cup is upon us and there's no need throwing the baby out with the bath water. Enjoy it as much as you can!