From Morocco’s fairy-tale journey to Japan followers cleansing up after the match, listed below are just a few highlights of World Cup in Qatar.
The World Cup got here and went.
Argentina beat France in a pulsating last on Sunday to shut the chapter on the Arab world’s first soccer World Cup.
With loads of on- and off-field motion to select from, listed below are a few of the moments of the World Cup as seen by a few of Al Jazeera’s workers protecting the match.
Showkat Shafi – Photojournalist
Monitoring Morocco’s phenomenal journey was particular. Amongst my most cherished moments in the course of the protection was watching a son on a video name along with his father again dwelling when Morocco beat Spain. Each of them had been crying and screaming in a second of pure pleasure and love for the sport. The younger man was shifting his cellphone to ensure his father in Morocco was a part of the historic second. I additionally witnessed the truth that for a lot of soccer devotees, the World Cup is nearly a religious gathering.
After Lionel Messi lifted the cup and paraded it throughout the bottom, many Argentinian followers within the crowd requested safety personnel and photographers, together with me, to pluck just a few strands of grass from the bottom the place Argentina made historical past.
Sandra Gathmann – Host: Begin Right here
A spotlight of the World Cup was seeing Japan beat Germany and having the ability to present the world there may be extra to why Japanese followers clear up the stands after matches. I used to be born and raised in Osaka and my producer Adele-Momoko Fraser is half Japanese. When movies of Japanese followers cleansing up began making rounds, we got down to clarify that cleansing up after your self is “atarimae” (apparent) and that it comes right down to a stage of respect and sportsmanship that extends to how gamers deal with one another on the pitch too.
Hafsa Adil – Contributing journalist
For me, it was having the chance to mingle with soccer followers from internationally, particularly those from Argentina.
From taking out huge loans to promoting their automobiles and abandoning their newborns for an opportunity to see their staff raise the trophy, Argentinian soccer followers redefined soccer fanaticism for me. The self-confessed “loopy” followers not solely put every part on the road to be in Qatar, however many of the 35,000 or so of them additionally made it their dwelling.
They gleefully invited each Lionel Messi fan to stroll into their properties in Barwagento, share a bit of their succulent barbecue, and sing alongside to Muchachos with them. It has been an schooling in soccer fandom.
![Tatiana Quartucci (second from left) and Mattias (second from right) travelled to the World Cup in Qatar from Lionel Messi's hometown Rosario in Argentina [Hafsa Adil/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_20221218_01012414164.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C615)
Usaid Siddiqui – Journalist
It was watching the opening ceremony and the opening recreation with hundreds of migrant employees on the Industrial Space Fan Zone. They appeared to be having a good time away from very gruelling work schedules to benefit from the soccer. In any case, these folks made the World Cup occur and made Qatar the best way it's.
Within the stadium, it was undoubtedly the environment of the Morocco-Portugal quarterfinal. I keep in mind how a girl saved pacing some 20 metres away from her seat, unable to look at the sport, profusely praying for an Atlas Lions win. And her prayers had been answered.
Faras Ghani – Editor
My favorite second of the World Cup got here on the very finish: Lionel Messi lifting the trophy. This was not due to Messi or as a result of it was Argentina successful the match. It was as a result of at that second it hit me that Qatar had executed it. Twelve years within the making, it withstood 12 years of criticism, hate, racism and allegations of corruption, hate and racism and managed to ship what it promised.
The journey was not easy or good because of the highlight over its therapy of migrant employees and the kafala system. Whereas the state of affairs on the bottom has improved in the previous few years, there nonetheless is room for additional enchancment. Qatar’s guarantees to those that come to its shores to offer a greater life for his or her households are hopefully saved as that is the nation’s likelihood to pay again those that helped it attain these very heights seen in the course of the World Cup.
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