By: Rolando Maldonado
The 64 matches that make up the Qatar 2022 World Cup will be played from November 20 to December 18. This means that with 29 days of competition, Qatar will become the world championship with the LESS duration in history.
The most expensive world cup in history
The purchasing power of the Arab world is no secret to anyone. In fact, Qatar is the country with the highest per capita income in the world, since in addition to oil, it has the third largest Natural Gas reserves on the entire planet.
That said, Qatar 2022 will be the most expensive World Cup in history, with an investment of more than 220 billion dollars. Qatar is the smallest country to host a World Cup It is well said that “size does not matter” and with an area just over 11 thousand square kilometers, Qatar will become the smallest country (geographically speaking) to host a World Cup.But that’s not all, because with a population of 2.9 million people, Qatar will surpass Uruguay as the country with the smallest population to host a World Cup, a record that stood for almost 100 years!
What is and what does the mascot of the Qatar 2022 World Cup mean? Something that makes the World Cups so special are the mascots and in that aspect Qatar is still a somewhat ‘particular’ World Cup. La’eeb is the name of the official mascot of Qatar 2022 and its name in Arabic means “skilled player”. Its design is based on the ghutra, which is a typical Arab headdress of the region, however, to avoid further confusion, FIFA went for the easy way and says that “La’eeb comes from the metaverse of pets, a universe that does not It can be described in words and everyone can imagine as they want” whatever that means.
