30 Days ahead of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Qatar turned dream into reality, carrying a message of peace
Gulf Times
In 2009, it was only a dream to succeed when Qatar announced its bid to organise the largest sporting event in the world, the World Cup.
Qatar changed sports from just competitions on the field and cheering in the stands to lofty meanings that serve communities, people, and countries, elevating the value of sport to achieve peace and rapprochement between people, when it submitted its file to host the World Cup in 2022, amid astonishment and wonder from all athletes of the great ambition that Qatar enjoys.
In 2009, it was only a dream to succeed when Qatar announced its bid to organise the largest sporting event in the world, the World Cup. Wishful thinking is what appeared to everyone through the hosting file when it was announced at the Khalifa International Stadium in HH the Amir's Football Cup Final, but in reality, Qatar was carrying high-end concepts in football and hosting tournaments, which appeared in crucial moments.
Qatar presented a comprehensive file with strong competition from countries experienced in appearing in the World Cup, some of which mastered its organization in decades past, and others have a history of World Cup participation and professional leagues and stars worth tens of millions of dollars.
Qatar surrounded its file with calls to millions of Arabs, the hopes of changing the concepts of football in establishing peace and rapprochement between peoples, and taking football as an easy way to divert the worlds attention to the Middle East, recognizing it as a region with deep-rooted traditions and culture based on peace, affection and harmony and not a region of disputes and conflicts.
