TJ Partizán Domaniža will play a match with a World Cup participant – ŠPORT.SK

today 07:25 | Friendly matches of teams from the Slovak 5th league usually get the attention of only a few die-hard fans of the given village teams. However, the whole of Slovakia is already talking about the preparatory meeting planned for next Saturday. This year’s World Cup, hosted by Qatar, will take place on an unusual date from November 20 to December 18, 2022. The International Football Federation (FIFA) justified the move due to the intense heat in Qatar during the summer months. WC 2022 will thus be the first ever world football championship that will not be held in May, June or July. And as is usual, the team of the organizing country, in this case Qatar, is also guaranteed automatic participation. The country, which is in the 49th place in the FIFA world ranking, got a place in the “mundial” for free, while other countries fought hard for it. In the basic A-group, they will face Ecuador (44th place in the FIFA ranking), Senegal (18th) and the Netherlands (8th). Qatar is conscientiously preparing for the confrontation with those opponents, since the national football team is on a kind of European tour from the second half of June, during which they will play a series of unofficial friendly matches. Qatar has already played against the Northern Irish team FC Linfield (0:1), the Belgian team Royal Antwerp (2:2), the Spanish Mallorca (0:0) and the Italian clubs Udinese Calcio (2:1), Lazio Rome (0:0 ) and ACF Fiorentina (0:0). A hussar’s feat was achieved by a participant of the Slovak V. League Severozápad, when TJ Partizán Domaniža will also play a friendly match with Qatar next Saturday, August 27. The team from Horné Považ, a village with a little over 1,600 inhabitants, will compete against a participant in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. And even in Vienna! The club, which in the 1st round of the 5th league of the SZ group won over Chynoran 3:1, in the 2nd round defeated Kvašov 2:1, and in the opening confrontation of the Slovak Cup was eliminated with Bánová only after penalty kicks (2:2 in regular time, 3 :5 on penalties) will play a friendly match in Vienna with the country that will play in the World Cup at the end of the year. As unbelievable as it sounds, everything is possible in football.