Like a glistening pearl on a sandy ocean floor, the Al Janoub Stadium stands out from the desert landscape of Al Wakrah in Qatar.

It is one of the first of eight stadiums completed for the 2022 World Cup in the small Gulf State and is equipped to deal with the unique challenges facing this edition of football’s showpiece.

Temperatures in Qatar can reach around 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) in June when World Cups have traditionally taken place. With this in mind, the tournament will instead kick off 21 November and conclude 18 December.

But winter in Qatar is a relative term with the mercury rising to as high as 30 degrees. To combat the heat, stadiums will be equipped with high-tech cooling systems which in turn raises concerns over the environmental sagame66 impact of such an undertaking. How will the stadiums keep fans and players cool while avoiding flames from eco-conscious critics?

“You can see the big volume of this stadium, we don’t even cool one tenth of that big volume,” Saud Abdul Ghani, a professor at the College of Engineering at Qatar University, who has led the project since 2009, told CNN’s Amanda Davies inside the Al Janoub Stadium. “We only cool about two meters where the (fans) are and about three meters where the people play.”

“The rest (of the energy used) is whatever was there. So what we do is we pull the air from the space (surrounding and inside the stadium), cool it and reissue it again, cool it and reissue it again. This technology is called recirculation.”

The chief executive of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organizing committee says the country has been surprised by the “severity” of the criticism it has received since winning the right to host the 2022 tournament.

Named as host in 2010, Qatar has rarely been out of the headlines over its human rights record, its prohibiting of homosexuality, allegations of corruption in the way the 2022 World Cup was awarded and the fact that the tournament has been moved to the winter because of the high summer temperatures.

Qatar has consistently denied any wrongdoing during the World Cup bidding process.

“I think we were expecting it,” Nasser Al Khater told CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies in Doha, as he reflected on the level of sagame88 criticism directed at Qatar. “I don’t think we were expecting the severity of it.

“We know for a fact that every major event has its fair share of criticism,” he added. “Is that based on reality? Is that based on perception? Is that based on selling headlines? We know that we recognize that.

“Was Qatar treated unfairly? Yes, in my opinion, very much so. I believe that Qatar has been judged by the court of perception very early on.”

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