The tournament will kick off at the impressive Al Bait Stadium, which will be released in a few days. The World Cup will feature eight state-of-the-art stadiums for its matches.
Qatar The countdown to the soccer World Cup to be held in 2022 began this Sunday and unveiled on the Doha waterfront a clock that marks the countdown, one year after the most important event in global football.
The large hourglass made of polish steel and in Led in the shape of an hourglass, is located in full promenade next to the government palace.
In this act, celebrated in style, various personalities from the football world have gathered, such as the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, the Secretary General of Qatar 2022, Hassan Al Zawadi and the General Director Nasser Al Khater, the former English player David Bechkam, World Cup ambassador, among others.
Qatar 2022 will be the first World Cup, since its inception in 1930, to be held during the winter months (from November 21 to December 18, 2022) and It will have eight avant-garde stadiums for this.
The tournament will start in eThe impressive Al Bait Stadium, which will be released in a few days with the opening match of the Arab Cup 2021 between Qatar and Bahrain on November 30.
That same day, Stadium 974 (Ras Abu Abud) will be inaugurated, and only the last of the eight World Cup venues will remain, the Lusail Stadium, which will open its doors in early 2022.
Three of the eight venues They have been designed by the Madrid architectural studio Fenwick Iribarren: the Education City stadium, the Al Thumama stadium and the 974 stadium, which will open on November 30 for the Arab Cup in the opening match between the United Arab Emirates and Syria.
Stadium 974 is the seventh that has been presented to date after Khalifa International, Al Yanoub, Education City, Ahmad Bin Ali, Al Bayt and Al Zumama, which will host World Cup matches next year.
It is expected according to the organizers that 1.2 million fans arrive in Qatar for the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East in 2022.
So far there are thirteen teams that have ensured their presence in the World Cup: In addition to Qatar, as the organizing country, they will be Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, England, Serbia, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
A compact and sustainable event, according to the organizers, due to the small size of the emirate, in which longest journey between the eight stadiums it will be less than 45 minutes.
To this end, the emirate has developed a state-of-the-art metro network with driverless trains imported from Japan and has promoted the construction of a new road network that effectively connects all parts of the country. (I)
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