DOHA: Qatar is capable of hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup either in summer or winter, the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said in an interview yesterday. During an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Sheikh Tamim said the World Cup in Qatar would deliver ‘one of the best World Cup’ in the history of the sport. The world football family is yet to decide whether the 2022 edition is pushed forward to the winter to avoid hot conditions in FIFA’s favourable months of June and July. “Our (World Cup) bid was for summer. At the end it will up to FIFA to decide when (to host the event). But for us we are ready for both because we have this (cooling) technology,” Sheikh Tamim told CNN yesterday. The Emir said Qatar has successfully employed its cooling technology at one of the top football venues in Doha. “Our bid for was for it (the World Cup) to be in summer. (But) we have a new technology that is being used in a stadium for the last 10 years now,” Sheikh Tamim said. “It works in one of the stadiums (Al Sadd Stadium). We tried it for 10 years. It will work (in 2022 also). It will be working 100 percent,” he added. If the World Cup is held in summer, then Qatari organizers will spruce up fan zones and training facilities with cooling technology,” the Emir said. “The facilities for the athletes, fans and the players and the training grounds will be excellent. We have tried this. We tried (cooling) the fans zones in Qatar (when the last World Cup was held in Brazil). Thousands of fans turned up so we know heat won’t be a problem,” the Emir added. “People should understand that Qatar had the best bid.Qatar will do one of the best World Cup in history and I am sure about that. We had big competitors in this bid. I am confident that we will make an excellent World Cup,” the Emir said.