JAKARTA - The 2022 World Cup has ended. The Argentine national team came out as world champions after beating France in the final.
The final, which was exciting with so many goals, was created to continue on penalties, as if to be the perfect closing of Qatar's 2022 World Cup series,
A beautiful ending for the hosts after a long and steep road since 12 years ago when they won their nominations for the hosts in a vote on FIFA.
When former FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced Qatar's victory to host the 2022 World Cup on December 2, 2010, immediately drew many reactions.
Qatar's geographic location, which has an extreme climate of up to 50 degrees Celsius in the summer, immediately raises questions about the results of the vote.
What's more, Qatar is known as a country that has no long football tradition, so their status as hosts is increasingly being questioned.
Revelling in the atmosphere 🥁 #FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 20, 2022
A more severe blow then began to emerge when in May 2011 a number of senior FIFA officials were involved in a corruption case, which increasingly faced a major question mark in Qatar's victory in the 2022 World Cup host nomination.
Various corruption cases involving FIFA officials continue to be investigated and investigative reports largely waive the allegation that Qatar "purchases" the rights to host the 2022 World Cup.
Regarding the tradition of football, Qatar can answer this with the existence of the Aspire Academy which continues to improve the quality of football in the country.
One of their biggest clubs, Al Sadd, won the Asian Champions League. A similar achievement was followed by the 2014 U-20 Asian Cup trophy and the senior level Asia Cup five years later.
The tradition is clearly not long, but slowly the culture of Qatar football and its achievements are starting to climb.
Meanwhile, regarding climate, it was finally agreed in 2015 that the 2022 World Cup would be held in winter rather than a routine schedule in the summer. Therefore, the 2022 World Cup will last from November 19 to Sunday, December 18 last night.
Since accepting the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, Qatar has reportedly poured out at least $220 billion to prepare everything in order to hold the tournament.
That figure makes Qatar's 2022 World Cup the most expensive World Cup in history. However, that figure became a debate, as Qatar's 2022 World Cup CEO, Nasser Al Khater, said the real budget was only eight billion US dollars.
According to Al Khater, that number inflated by including budgets for various infrastructures built by Qatar to welcome the 2022 World Cup.
However, it seems natural to include the various infrastructure budget in the 2022 World Cup costs, especially that seven of the eight stadiums used are fully newly built.
In addition, Qatar is also building Doha Metro's mass transportation infrastructure which only operates as of 2019 or about three years before the 2022 World Cup.
Metro has recently proven to be the main backbone network for transportation for supporters to the 2022 World Cup stadiums.
Behind the nominal series of figures that mark the high budget, the 2022 World Cup takes place with great excitement.
A tournament we'll never forget.#FIFAWorldCup | #Qatar2022
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 19, 2022
Surprisingly have emerged since the first series of matches in the group stage, including the success of Saudi Arabia in overthrowing Argentina 2-1 in the opening Group C.
In Qatar's 2022 World Cup, a brilliant record was also set for Morocco's success in reaching the semifinals which was the first achievement for African and Arab representative countries.
But of course the success of watching Lionel Messi complete his brilliant career by lifting the World Cup trophy with Argentina after overcoming France Kylian Mbappe in a tight final to the end of 64 games in Qatar for a month.
The 2022 World Cup was marked by 172 goals in rain, which is the record for the highest number for an issue that surpassed 171 in 1998 and 2014.
Meanwhile Mbappe became the second player to pack a hat-trick in a 2022 World Cup final after British legend Geoff Hurst in 1966.
Overall, the majority of football fans are quite satisfied with the Qatar 2022 World Cup which they initially thought would be chaotic.
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