Throughout the history of the World Cup, no tournament has been subjected to the same as the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in terms of distortion campaigns and boycott calls, and the Al-Marsad program followed the dimensions and causes of this campaign.
And the incitement against the World Cup in Qatar turned into a sport practiced by the British, French and German media without relenting. It did not leave anything related to the World Cup and the host country without fabricating a file for it and creating a case for it.
These incitement campaigns did not find an echo amid the festive atmosphere created by the fans coming from different parts of the world, and the host country provided them with all the reasons for success and conditions of safety and security.
Also, the Qatar World Cup did not exclude anyone, and some Israeli media were present in a way that seemed to have nothing to do with the atmosphere of the World Cup or the results of its matches. The Israeli media, and expressed his rejection of the State of Israel, stressing his attachment to the Palestinian cause.
offensive and hypocritical
It is noteworthy that when the eyes of the world turned to Doha and the opening ceremony, the BBC focused its attack on the host country, on FIFA, and on everything that came its way.
The BBC boycott of the opening ceremony caused widespread indignation in the streets and the press in Britain, which described the boycott of the ceremony as hypocritical.
But the harsh lesson for the BBC and other Western media, which is prejudiced against the World Cup in Qatar, came from FIFA President Gianni Infantino himself, as he responded to the campaign on the eve of the start of the World Cup, which he described as the best in the history of this global event.
On the level of organization, Qatar succeeded in hosting an exceptional World Cup that brought together peoples and affirmed the values of coexistence among nations.