QATAR 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP HIGHLIGHTS
By Wanjiku Thuku
-City of Lights
-Projective Holograms with a ring of smoke
-Fireworks and Dancing Fountains /Strobe lights with imagery
-Casper the friendly ghost impersonated or depicted by the Qatar Mascot
-Kizz Daniel, Patoranking , and Stone Bwoy performing at the fan festival onstage.
-Davido and other Arab artists performing the World Cup Theme Song-’Hayya Hayya (Better Together) plus Korean BTS lead singer-Jungkook singing the other World cup Theme Song-’Dreamers at the Lusail Stadium
-Partnership with Super sport, KBC (KENYA BROADCASTING CORPORATION) and other channels to display all games during the world cup opening ceremony and closing ceremony
-Tukoh Taka FIFA Fan Festival Official Theme song-Myriam Fares, Maluma and Nicki Minaj
-Argentina 3(Overall World Cup Winners in the final game)-France 2(Mbappe won the golden boot award for best player overall)
-Children were spotted at the Al Bayt stadium reciting the Quran at the opening ceremony in Qatar, Doha
-Controversies surrounding this World Cup 2022 in Qatar-No selling of beer apart from Budweiser, women wearing revealing clothes is not allowed apart from miss Croatia who broke that rule, fake fans in the stadiums to attend each soccer game etc.
-Monologue by Morgan Freeman and Arab disabled man during the opening ceremony
-Introduction of all the mascots being introduced and all world cup theme songs from past years
-South Korean Singer Jungkook (lead singer of BTS group) ft Fahad Al Kubaisi doing the Qatar Theme Song-’Dreamers as the main World Cup Song 2022
-Gold Statue of the World Cup itself
-8 World Cup Soccer Stadiums in Qatar built to host all 64 soccer games-Knockout Stage, Round Of 16, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals
-Full Ceremony-Maximum Time 20-30 minutes
-Kenaya Ban lifted by FIFA Federation thanks to the Kenya Football Federation Sports Minister
-Battle Of Brands to dress top soccer players like Messi (Brand Ambassador of Adidas) and Cristiano Ronaldo that is Adidas versus Nike
-Black not allowed to travel to Qatar for the games then opened during the round of 16 games
-Budweiser was the only alcoholic brand allowed to be sold from start to finish. Other brands were sold at the fan festival.
-Binance signed CR7-Cristiano Ronaldo as a Brand Ambassador to promote NFTs. His last world cup to ever play for Portugal (next step in his career to move to a new club or retire fully. He just got signed to the Saudi Arabian national soccer team with a hefty cheque from the main officials.