The "974" World Cup stadium said goodbye to the World Cup and its fans after it embraced it for the last time, with Brazil's victory over South Korea 4-1 in the final price of the Qatar World Cup, and when we told the fans of the two teams, they were surprised and happy with the news.
The stadium - which hosted 7 matches in the World Cup - holds the "key to Qatar's connection" and also symbolizes the number of containers that were used to construct it. It was designed to be completely dismantled after the World Cup and offered to countries that need seats in the framework of development.
Before the start of the match, the fans of the two teams were racing to take memorial photos, because the fans of one of the two teams would leave at the end of the match from the knockout stages, and among those were South Korean Pong, who attended the match with his son and friend.
Pong (first from left): The idea of the stadium is creative and its implementation is exceptional (Al Jazeera)
"Is this true? I watched more than one match in this stadium, and I liked its container design. The idea is creative and the implementation is exceptional," Pong told Al-Jazeera Net in surprise.
And he continued, "But what will happen to him, the seats and everything in the stadium?"
And after he learned that he would donate it to developing countries that need to build sports facilities, the surprise and sadness of the stadium - which has a capacity of about 40,000 - turned into joy and praise.
He explained that "there are many poor countries that love football and their capabilities do not allow them to build such stadiums, and this is sustainability, and he expressed his happiness that Qatar will leave a great legacy and be remembered by everyone because it helps developing countries."
Bong's son, Seo Ho, intervenes to say that "Qatar - according to what he read in local media - is trying to avoid the trap that other countries have fallen into by building stadiums that it may not use in the future, and has decided to donate them to help countries that need these stadiums."
"Su Hyun": Giving is an indescribable feeling, and how if we help the poor to practice their favorite hobby (Al Jazeera)
As for the Korean girl, "Soo Hyun", who was waiting for the start of the match, she was shocked by the news, and considered that "the stadium is more than wonderful and its design is unique. Even the pictures I took from more than one stadium were my family asking me about this particular stadium and saying they had not seen anything like it before."
She explained, "If he donates it to poor countries, this is a good thing, and what is required is that we feel for others and try to help them, and so we feel the value of what we possess. Giving is an indescribable feeling, and how if we help the poor to practice their favorite hobby."
"Designing for deconstruction is one of the main principles of sustainable building," says Karim El Gendy, a lecturer at Chatham House and a former World Cup climate advisor.
"It allows for the natural recovery of the construction site or its reuse for another function," he said.
Gustavo (right): Everything in this version of the World Cup is exceptional (Al Jazeera)
In turn, the Brazilian fan Gustavo, who came with his friend Alejandro from Sao Paulo, said that he was "dazzled by the design of the stadium and read about it being built of containers," but he did not know that it would be completely dismantled and would not exist after the end of the World Cup.
He continued, "Everything in this version of the World Cup is exceptional, from the organization and reception, through the level of football in the group stage and continuing in the knockout stages, not to mention the great surprises that occurred, including the qualification of South Korea, which we face in the final price."
The surprises of Roberto and his wife, who came from the city of "Fortaleza", and who knew about the fate of the World Cup stadiums after the curtain fell on the world football wedding, are no different.
Roberto (left): Everything that was said in the media was contrary to the reality that we saw (Al-Jazeera)
And "Angelina" intervenes to say, "I read that most of the stadiums will reduce their capacity and be granted to countries that need sports facilities, and these seats contribute to improving the levels of football in developing countries."
However, she indicated that she "did not know that there would be a stadium that would completely cease to exist, be completely dismantled and donated."
For his part, Roberto praises everything he has experienced since his arrival in Qatar, stressing that "everything that was said in the media was contrary to the reality that we have seen, and the issue of stadiums and the donation of parts of them is wonderful."
After the end of the tournament, about 170,000 seats will be dismantled to give developing countries assistance from Qatar to improve the sports infrastructure of those countries.