For that matter, the most fanatical soccer fans could manage to watch four matches per day, every day of the Group Stage. That has never been possible in the history of the World Cup. It is a dream come true. You can mark my words that there will be some fans who manage to attend all 48 group stage matches played in those first 12 days.
It is the ultimate bucket list experience for a soccerphile. It is a beautiful old hotel, and I truly enjoyed my stay. One of the highlights for me basing in one city was experiencing the culture shifts when teams arrived there for their matches. There was a match held in each host city every four days. So the first week of the tournament, the hotel was overrun by Brits there to see England play Paraguay.
Four days later my hotel was filled with South Koreans. Next came the Iranians, and it was hard not to notice all of the beautiful young Persians gathered in the hotel lobby. The last group stage match in Frankfurt was between Holland and Argentina.
Never in my life have I seen fans gather the way the Dutch do it. American sports fans think that tailgating before a college football game is a big deal.
Imagine an entire city turned into a sea of orange clad Holland fans, with beers in hand, singing songs at the top of their lungs to support their national team.
Try to imagine a hyper-patriotic tailgate party that stretches to all edges of the city limits, and you have some idea of what that was like. How does this apply to Qatar, you might ask? Well, all of the matches in the World Cup are being held within a mile radius of Doha, the capital.
That means virtually all of the fans for all of the teams will be staying all together in Doha. This is unprecedented. There will be 32 nations represented, and everyone will be staying in the same city, walking the same boardwalk, visiting the same restaurants and shopping in the same markets.
Every gathering place will be echoing with competing songs in a broad cross-section of home languages. It will be culturally epic! Qatar had to make a lot of promises to win the bidding process and host the World Cup. Specifically, they had to add a lot of new hotels.
You can expect a slew of brand new 4-and 5-star hotel properties will continue to open up over the next year. Finally, in , it was confirmed that all 64 fixtures would be played over a 28 day period between November and December , making it the shortest World Cup since when there were only 16 teams.
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Important Note : All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review. They sponsored the congress. As Simon Kuper wrote for AskMen. A year later, the ban was annulled. But in August , he pulled out of the race, telling reporters he would not seek the biggest job in world football.
I will be backing him to remain in office for a new mandate. He is my very good friend," according to David Hills of the Guardian. Obviously, lobbying can take many different forms. It can look like a trip, a dinner, a swanky hotel, an infrastructure project—those things that are legal, even though they are quite clearly meant to steer influence.
Domestically, these events are a strong source of building national pride and identity, are wildly popular with the masses, provide an incentive to stimulate infrastructure growth and allow the political class to cover themselves in reflected glory and add to their legacies. Internationally, it encourages the networking of various elites and allows the host to project a certain image or convey certain messages and generate soft power.
Neither the Olympics nor the World Cup have ever been held in the Arab world. For Qatar to become the first raises its profile and influence among its peer states.
But it is one thing to say you want to host the World Cup, it is quite another to actually host it. How did Qatar pull it off? Qatar put hosting the World Cup near the top of its list of foreign policy objectives — as vital to the national interest — and treated it accordingly by allocating the appropriate time, resources, personnel and money.
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