Most Interesting Facts You Should Know About the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022

The 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup will begin in Qatar from November 20 through December 18, 2022. This global tournament will feature 32 countries from five confederations. Even though the Nigerian Super Eagles failed to qualify for this present world cup, many Nigerians are still heavily included in the games.

While we're counting down to the competition's opening date, we have curated seven exciting facts about the World Cup tournament at Qatar

 

The Nigerian Advantage:

As earlier stated, while Nigeria will not be in the fight for the highly-coveted world cup this year; still, several Nigerians will be participating in the World Cup in different aspects. For starters, Nigeria's award-winning musicians, Davido and Kizz Daniel will perform at the event's opening ceremony.

 

Female Referees:

For the first time in the World Cup history, female referees will officiate – center field – at the football matches during the tourney. Three women, namely: Salima Mukansanga, 33, Yoshimi Yamashita, 36, and Stephanie Frappart, 38, will be among the 36 referees chosen to oversee the football matches at the competition. Talk about girl power!

 

Most Expensive World Cup:

The money spent on World Cup preparation is another intriguing piece of information. An estimate of $220 billion has gone into infrastructure for the competition.

 This includes cost for building hotels, motorways, air conditioned stadia, and others to make the country more accommodating. Based on this, the upcoming FIFA 2022 competition will rank among the most expensive World Cups.

 

 The Most Commutable World cup Event:

Travelling around Qatar is not an issue because of its size. Despite being the most expensive World Cup, it is the smallest country. Qatar’s stadium has all eight stadiums within a 60-kilometre radius.

 Therefore, fans can move from one stadium to another in less than an hour. Fans will find this exciting news because intra-state travelling wouldn’t be hard for visitors.

 

2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar

First Time Qatar Is Playing In The World Cup:

As exciting as it is to be a host country, this will also be Qatar’s first participation in the World Cup competition. Their football team has been attempting to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for over twenty years.

 They came very close in 1990 but didn’t make it past the group stages, but being the host country, Qatar has automatically qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2022.

 

Africans Couches Leading Africans Teams:

All the African teams playing at the World Cup have local coaches. This makes it a historic event for the African continent as well. The coaches are Walid Regragui (Morocco), Aliou Cissé (Senegal), Rigobert Song (Cameroon), Jalel Kadri (Tunisia), and Otto Addo (Ghana).