Qatar's success in being chosen by FIFA as 2022 World Cup hosts is likely to mean an anticipated construction boom in the Arab state.

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Fifa will decide on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts on 2 December.

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South Korea and Qatar will compete with the other eight bids to host the 2022 World Cup, with FIFA set to decide on the hosts of both events in December 2010.

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Thompson is the only English member of the Fifa Executive Committee - the 24 men who vote on the World Cup hosts.

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This resignation is the latest in a string of bad press for FIFA, which has been under relentless criticism since the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts were announced last December.

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That this is no longer an issue will delight Fifa chief Sepp Blatter, especially with just nine months left before Africa hosts its first World Cup finals.

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