The eyes of the world are on Qatar today Sunday as the 2022 FIFA World Cup opens, after a tug-of-war for almost 12 years since 2010 when it was announced that Qatar had won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and today the zero hour has come.
This is the twenty-second World Cup, which takes place every four years, and the seventh and last World Cup, which is held with the participation of 32 teams, since the International Federation of Football Associations decided to increase the number of participants. teams in the World Cup to 48 teams, as of the 2026 World Cup held in the US and Mexico.
The World Cup first started with 32 teams in 1998 in France, and this is the first ever World Cup held in the Middle East and the Arab region, where the organization of the tournament faced many challenges, the most important of which was the climatic factor, so the decision was made hold it in November. The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar kicks off with the opening match at exactly 7 o’clock local time in Mecca Al Mukarrama, with the match between host nation Qatar and Ecuador at home.
The match will be preceded by an opening ceremony approximately two hours later, which will feature several Arab and international singing stars.
Opening of the mass festival
Yesterday, the opening ceremony for World Cup fans took place on the Corniche in Doha in the presence of FFA President Infantino and a number of World Cup veterans. As for today’s opening ceremony, American Trinidadian star Nicki Minaj collaborated with Colombian singer and poet Maluma and Lebanese singer Miriam Fares in the latest musical addition to the official photo of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The song is the latest in a series of songs from artists around the world released as part of the FIFA 2022 Official Soundtrack.
The song “Toca Taca”, with lyrics in English, Spanish and Arabic, was unveiled on Friday, two days before the start of the World Cup.
