This Sunday attending the opening ceremony of this 22nde World Cup at home in Doha, then Qatar-Ecuador (17:00) Sheikh Hamad al-Thani, the father. success story The Qatari will be able to enjoy the journey since the late 2000s, when she and her mind came up with the crazy idea of inviting world football’s elite to a country of barely 300,000 people with no sporting tradition. son Tamim, who succeeded him in 2013. But thanks to the versatile and powerful levers of soft power, fueled by vast gas reserves and served by an innate sense of possibility, the dream has become a reality.
Even if the competition is one of the most controversial in the history of the World Cup, this planetary meeting marks the consecration of the power of a small state that has become important on the world stage, even if success story comes with undeniable gray areas.
A sign of this success, its neighbors and former enemies in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates…
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Source: Le Figaro
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