Qatar is the first Arab World Cup After waiting 100 years Written by the writer Mustafa Kamal Al-Amir

I visited Qatar International Airport in 1998 and it was miserable with almost one hotel, the "Sheraton Doha" with its pyramid shape
What was achieved after this date is a real miracle
With the construction of dozens of hotels and high-rise towers, and the provision of 150,000 hotel rooms to accommodate the World Cup fans and the players of the 32 teams participating in the World Cup after winning the organization
And the joy of Sheikha Mozah, the mother of Tamim, the current emir, with his father, Prince Hamad bin Khalifa, and the realization of his vision of transferring the oil emirate and achieving a huge sports, economic and media boom by launching the Al Jazeera news channel and then buying Al Jazeera Sports for ART Sport Saudi channels.
The dream has become a reality, so the Qatar World Cup 2022 will be launched with a legendary opening ceremony in the presence of the Swiss Gian Infantino, President of FIFA, with the kings and heads of the countries participating in the World Cup 22 with the participation of 32 teams from the five continents of the world
The World Cup has been specially modified so that it will be held for the first time in the winter due to the high humidity and summer heat in the Gulf
And all the championship stadiums are air-conditioned for the first time in the world's stadiums
It hosts eight World Cup stadiums, seven of which were built specifically for the event, which takes place once every four years, in addition to the renovated Khalifa International Stadium with subsidiary training pitches.
The very small Emirate of Qatar has turned into a large work camp for ten years to realize its dream of organizing
The world has given up space and time
And he became like the one who left his great palace and stuffed himself in the storage room or under the stairwell
Qatar also suspended schools for a period of 6 weeks throughout the duration of the tournament, from November 15 to December 25
After the establishment of the Arab World Cup 2021 in Qatar with the participation of 16 Arab teams and Algeria winning the title and Qatar winning third place in a good rehearsal, it confirmed Qatar's readiness for the World Cup.
 The tournament kicks off 11/20 with the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador, while the final will be held on 12/18 on Qatar National Day 50, while the American Championship 2026 will be held on the 250th anniversary of America’s independence from Britain and Europe in July 1776
The honor list of 22 world champions is divided between Europe
12 titles (4 Italy - 4 Germany - 2 France - Spain 2010 and England 1966, one title with a questionable goal
 And Latin America 10 titles (five for the samba magicians of Brazil and two for the Tango team, Argentina 1978/86, and the same for Uruguay 1930/50), and nothing for the African and Asian teams, two-thirds of the world’s population
In the nearly 100 years since the tournament began in 1930 in Uruguay
Will it be the biggest surprise in Qatar and the miracle happening with an African or Asian team reaching the final and winning the title, or will France maintain its title and achieve its third cup despite the exclusion of Pogba and Kante from France’s dukes in the World Cup?
Or CR7 Ronaldo will be on a date with history and win the first title in the history of Portugal, the European champion
Or luck smiles at the star Lionel Messi before his retirement and crowns the World Cup after winning the South American Cup
 Or will its rival, Brazil, which is full of players, and its star-studded team are not excluded from participating?
Or will the German machines return to work and win the fifth title in the absence of its continental rival, Italy, the most prominent absentee from the World Cup, and it is the European champion 2020 after its exit at the hands of Macedonia
After his absence from Russia 2018, the Netherlands national team will participate in the World Cup, led by veteran coach Louis van Gaal, with a team of young players led by Memphis Depay.
They have a great ambition to achieve surprise and win the title after reaching the final three times in 1974/78 and then 2010 and losing it to Spain with the goal of Iniesta.
The small Qatar is geographically and historically under the command of its ally Turkey in security, military and economic terms during the FIFA World Cup
A very strange paradox that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is only 11,000 km²
While the 2026 World Cup will be held in the Americas, a vast area, a million times larger than the Qatar peninsula
 Which had to resort to giant ships and floating hotels on its shores to host nearly one million tourists from the national teams
With the occupancy of nearby hotels in the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on the land, sea and air borders
(six trillion pounds) 220 billion dollars
Construction cost and organization of the tournament in Qatar
Which also set up a thousand tents to sleep the fans, while converting containers into sleeping rooms with shared bathrooms!
With additional trips organized by FIFA between Doha and Israel, even though the occupying country did not qualify for the World Cup
 The 32 teams participating in the World Cup, including four Arab teams, the first of which is the host Qatar, and coached by the Spaniard Felix Sanchez
With its naturalized players from other countries, including Egyptian, Arab, African and Latino descent
Followed by Saudi Arabia and its French coach, Herve Renard, who won the African Cup twice with Zambia and Ivory Coast
Then Tunisia and Morocco for the Arabs of Africa, who preferred to rely on national coaches, Jalal Qadri for the Eagles of Carthage, and he was an assistant to Munther Al-Kabir.
 Then Walid Rekraki (Wydad coach) for the Atlas Lions, after the recent dispensation of the Frenchman, Wahid Khalilovich
And make way for the return of Hakim Ziyech, the Chelsea striker, and Mazraoui, the Ajax player, in Amsterdam
It is the same approach for the five African teams
 The first of which is the Senegalese Teranga Lions and the renewal of the contract of its coach, Aliou Cissé (until 2024), who won the 2021 African Cup at the expense of Egypt and qualified for the World Cup as well instead of the Pharaohs team
But he received a painful blow after the absence of striker Sadio Mane (Bayern Munich player and before Liverpool) was confirmed.
 Due to injury before the start of the World Cup
Also, the Ghana national team (Black Stars) relied on a young national coach, Otto Addo, despite his German citizenship by birth there.
The Cameroon Lions are coached by former defender Nobert Song
Who won the confidence of Samuel Eto'o, president of the Cameroonian Football Association, after his disappointment and failure to win the African Cup on Ali
His land, but he achieved the surprise and qualified at the expense of Algeria with the aim of stunning the Algerians on their land
Egypt and Saudi Arabia And Greece presented a very strong file aimed at winning and jointly organizing the 2030 World Cup, in a historical precedent. Organizing the World Cup in three continents, Africa, Europe and Asia
So as to promote peace, football is the world's number one popular sport

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