The friendliness is suddenly over.
After four and a half weeks of the World Cup, we had gotten used to the many nice human signposts and answers to our questioning looks and sentences.
But now – what just happened?
– we suddenly hear an astonishingly abrupt “No” and see an energetic shaking of the head!
The atmosphere on this special day should actually be great here.
As a rule, Christmas and Easter never fall on the same day.
Tobias Rabe
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But what are rules if the world football governing body FIFA and the World Cup host Qatar set them up?
So the grand finale of the World Cup will take place on the national holiday.
But the mood that we perceive when the small group of reporters set out for the "Qatar Olympic and Sport Museum" on the big Qatar day is suddenly as cool as many rooms in which we had to fear for our health again and again in the past month.
Seeing the story again in the morning before a new story is written in the evening, that was the idea.
But the way to the museum turns out to be surprisingly difficult.
Where tens of thousands of Moroccans were cheering their sensational team the night before and the atmosphere was exuberant, the security check is now much tighter than before.
Unfortunately, the short walk from the entrance to the site to the museum and back will not be the last summer walk in the sun this year before heading back to cooler Germany after the final.
The security forces insist on accompanied driving.
So a bus comes along just to drive the three reporters the two hundred meters motorized.
Doesn't sound like Christmas or Easter.
But rather after April 1st.
