The 8 stadiums of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 2:09
(CNN Spanish)
-- The Qatar 2022 World Cup final will be played on Sunday, December 18 at the Lusail Stadium at 06:00 pm local time (10:00 am Miami time).
The 64th match of the competition, from which the new owner of the World Cup will emerge, can be seen at 09:00 am if you are in Mexico and at 12:00 pm in the case of Argentina.
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The Lusail Stadium, with 80,000 seats, will host matches of all phases, including several featuring Latin American teams in the group stage such as Argentina-Saudi Arabia (November 22), Brazil-Serbia (November 24), Argentina-Mexico (November 26), Portugal Uruguay (November 28), Saudi Arabia-Mexico (November 30) and Cameroon-Brazil (December 2).
The stadium, which is located 20 km north of the city of Doha, will also host one round of 16, one quarter-final and one semi-final match.
Panoramic of the Lusail Stadium on August 11, 2022. (Credit: Simon Holmes / Getty Images)
The venue, in addition to being the largest for the first cup to be played in the Gulf, will also become the "central hub of a new metropolis called Lusail City," explains FIFA.
Once the World Cup ends, according to the organization, the infrastructure will be transformed into a space for community use that has schools, health centers, shops, sports facilities and cafeterias.
Most of the seats, meanwhile, are going to be dismantled and donated to other countries.
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The design of the stadium, one of eight in which the World Cup matches will be played, includes elements linked to traditional Arab and Islamic culture.
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With the decision that the World Cup would be played in the months of November and December, the final is just a few days before Christmas.
One of the reasons that made the competition unfeasible in June and July, as is tradition, are the temperatures.
For December, according to the forecast of the World Meteorological Organization, the maximum average will reach 24.1 degrees Celsius and the minimum average will reach 15 degrees Celsius, according to the calculation made based on the temperatures of the period 1962-1992.
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