The yellow buses made available to journalists run almost empty.
Every ten meters, a security guard is bored on the longest pedestrian avenue in the city.
The members of the "event team", recognizable by their sky blue jackets, do not have many people to inform in the Msheireb metro station, the Châtelet-les-Halles in Doha.
This Thursday, three days before the World Cup, the whole city is heating up.
Everyone is at their post to welcome the 1.5 million supporters to come.
It emanates from it the feverish atmosphere of the evenings which have not yet begun.
After the fiasco of the test match in September, after the cascading controversies, Qatar wants to be an irreproachable host.
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