Today, Qatar is witnessing the opening of the 2022 World Cup, in the largest sporting event organized for the first time in the Middle East, and starting with the opening ceremony hosted by Al-Bayt Stadium in the Al-Khor region, the world will have a date with an exceptional tournament that is different from everything that happened throughout the 90 years of the competition’s history. .
And before the decisive moment comes, according to the timing of the World Cup, at seven in the evening today, Sunday, when the Italian referee Daniele Orsato blows the whistle for the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador, that moment will be the beginning of the challenge not only for the host Qatari team to achieve remarkable results in its first participation in the tournament, Rather, to prove the success of Qatar as the first Arab country to win the honor of organizing a competition the size of the World Cup.
Embracing the FIFA World Cup was a long challenging journey that began about 12 years ago, and will continue until December 18, the World Cup final date, which coincides with the National Day of the State of Qatar.
Qatar has allocated a huge budget to prepare for the organization of the World Cup by preparing an integrated infrastructure, and establishing 7 of the 8 stadiums that will host 64 matches in the tournament.
Arab dream
In addition to Qatar's organization of the World Cup, it will be an Arab event with distinction, and an honor shared by all Arab countries. The finals will witness the participation of 4 Arab teams, which are Qatar, the host, and Saudi Arabia for the Asia region, and Tunisia and Morocco for the Africa region.
The chances of these teams differ in advancing to the second round, after they finished in groups that seemed difficult to some and balanced to others.
Qatar will play in Group A alongside Senegal and the Netherlands, in addition to Ecuador, the team that will compete with Annabi in the opening match.
Although it is competing in the World Cup for the first time in its history, the Qatar national team is looking forward to writing a bright page in the country's history by advancing to the second round at least, although its rivals Senegal, which will be deprived of its icon Sadio Mane, the best player in Africa 2022, and the Netherlands will be difficult opponents. .
As for the third group, the Saudi national team, which is competing in the sixth finals in its history, will be part of a very strong group that experts classify as the most difficult for the Arab teams, which includes Argentina, the 2021 Copa America champion and one of the countries strongly nominated to go far in the competition, and Poland, which is led by Robert Lewandowski, the best player. In Europe 2022, as well as the Mexican national team, one of the very experienced teams in the World Cup.
In the fourth group, the Tunisian national team is working to overcome its recent difficulties to achieve an achievement that it was unable to achieve in its previous five participations, which is qualifying for the final price round.
Tunisia will play on Tuesday against its Danish counterpart in a difficult opening for the Carthage Eagles, but it will also face another opponent that is no less difficult and anchored, which is France, the champion of the last edition of Russia 2018, while its second match will be against Australia.
The Moroccan national team, according to experts, is one of the Arab teams nominated to emerge in the World Cup in Qatar, despite the fact that the draw placed it in an apparently difficult group that includes in particular the Croatian team, the summer of the 2018 world champion, and Belgium, the third in the same version, as well as the Canadian team returning to the World Cup race after an absence that lasted 36 years. .
Argentina and Brazil are the frontrunners for the title
The technicians and experts of the round witch consider that the Qatar 2022 World Cup will mark the return of the World Cup title to Latin America, after the greatest coronation was absent from the coffers of its teams in the last 4 versions, which are 2006 (Italy), 2010 (Spain), 2014 (Germany) and 2018 (France).
Brazil was the last South American team to win the World Cup in Korea and Japan 2002, but many nominations fall into the Argentine national team, led by its star Lionel Messi, as the most prominent candidate for coronation, and the Brazil national team, which is ready with its strongest stars.
As for the old continent, experts and technicians suggest that France, despite its players’ injuries, will be one of the candidates for the coronation and preservation of its world title, while Spain, Germany, England and Belgium are also among the candidates for the 2022 World Cup title.
The last World Cup
The Qatar version will be the last World Cup in which a large number of the stars of the round witch will participate. Some of them announced their final decision that the World Cup will be the “Farewell World Cup” for them, while others hinted at that, but by calculating the age factor, the 2022 World Cup appears to be the last chance for a number of of the prominent players.
Among the players that Qatar 2022 is expected to be their last World Cup are the world champions in 2018 with France, Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud, as well as the star and scorer of the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo, the star of the Argentine national team, the best player in the world 7 times, Lionel Messi, and the best European player. In 2022, Poland's top scorer Robert Lewandowski, Croatia's star Luka Modric, Uruguay stars Luis Suarez, Edinson Cavani and others.