72 days before the World Cup, Qatar has passed a first full-scale test

Inauguration day, test day, day of celebration in Lusail, about fifteen kilometers south of the center of Doha.

Friday evening, the Saudis of al-Hilal gave the reply to the Egyptians of Zamalek at the Lusail stadium, the scene of ten matches of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (November 20-December 18) including the final.

The first named won on penalties (1-1, 4-1 tab), pocketing 1.5 million dollars in the process, against 1 million for the losers.

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But it is above all the Qatari organizers who emerge victorious.

If this 80,000-seat enclosure, completed at the end of 2021, had already hosted a local championship match last August between al-Arabi and al-Rayyan (2-1) in front of 20,000 people, this “Lusail Super Cup” served as a test of magnitude nature 72 days before the start of the World Cup.

The real inauguration.

Qatar 2022 CEO Nasser al-Khater said days before that there was

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