The road to celebrating Qatar World Cupapart from all the strictly sports information and those that do not stop happening about alleged bribes to be chosen as the venue, the labor abuses and deaths of workers in the construction of the stadiums that host the event, and the cuts in rights and freedoms of citizens and fans, especially with women and the LGTBI+ collective, is still full of situations as surreal as the one that occurred this Sunday during the traditional parade of selections prior to the start of the championship.
The World Cup party is already touring the streets of Doha! ?#Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/hT8Ofbb86v
— Road to 2022 Spanish (@roadto2022es) November 11, 2022
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This unusual cavalcade of selections was made up mostly of extras not by natives of those same countries and the videos that have been shared by various Twitter accounts and have become a source of ridicule by Internet users, who have discovered the ‘tongo’ from the first moment.
For a country that has been in the pillory since its designation to host the World Cup, this anecdote only adds one more nail to its battered image, to the point that the former FIFA president himself, Joseph Blatterhas confessed that it was a error to grant the realization of the world cup to the country in the eastern Arabian Peninsula.
No Qatar World Cup, I tied the followers to a farce. pic.twitter.com/2MYhhiCJq8
— B24 (@B24PT) November 12, 2022