Messi in Qatar cape – Arab world doesn't understand criticism: "Not unlike Pelé's time"
Created: 2022-12-19 4:51 p.m
By: Florian Schimak
The picture of Lionel Messi in the bischt at the World Cup award ceremony went around the world.
The criticism of this finds little understanding on the Arab Internet.
Munich/Lusail – It was the moment Lionel Messi has been waiting for his whole life.
Him, raising the World Cup trophy into the night sky and thousands of fans in the stadium, on the streets and in front of the TV screens at home cheering him on.
He, the world champion, who made himself and the entire Argentine nation happy by winning the spectacular final (4:2 against France) at the 2022 World Cup.
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Name: Lionel Andres Messi Cuccutini |
DOB: June 24, 1987 (age 35) |
Club: Paris Saint-Germain (since 2021) |
Position: right winger |
Internationals (goals): 172 (98) |
World Cup 2022: Lionel Messi is presented with a bischt at the award ceremony
This moment should become an iconic one.
It ended up being a bizarre one.
Qatar's head of state, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, had put the transparent noble robe called Bischt on Messi just at the moment when he was about to receive the World Cup trophy.
Of course, such an action does not go uncommented.
In the West in particular, criticism was leveled at the fact that the Argentines' celebrations after their victory against France no longer belonged only to the new world champions, but also to the host country.
Well, this World Cup had more of an advertising purpose than a sporting and historical background.
Lionel Messi wore a bischt at the awards ceremony.
Gianni Infantino (right) and the Emir of Qatar are happy.
© IMAGO/Laci Perenyi
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In the Arab world, however, the criticism of the Bischt handover was incomprehensible.
In the social networks, users reacted with astonishment and drew prominent comparisons.
"When Mexico hosted the World Cup in 1970, they made defending champion Pele wear a Mexican hat," one fan wrote on Twitter.
At the time, the media would have described this as “realizing the football message”.
Another user commented, "When Arabs give their guest a biscuit, it's an honor and a token of gratitude, and it's not really different from Pele wearing a Mexican hat in 1970."
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Admittedly, the robe that Messi - not looking very happy - got pulled over on Sunday evening is rarely seen in this country.
What is it all about?
A bischt is a traditional cloak worn by men in the Gulf States and Iran on special occasions.
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At the award ceremony in June 1970 at the World Cup in Mexico, Pelé wore a sombrero after winning the title – a wide-brimmed hat typical of Mexico.
Brazil won 4-1 in the final against Italy at the World Cup.
Photos from the time show how the football icon with the hat on his head is carried by enthusiastic fans to the trophy presentation.
criticism back then?
Maybe non-existent due to lack of social media.
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Speaking of Italy.
It would be exciting to know how the world would have reacted if Fabio Cannavaro had had to lift the World Cup trophy in lederhosen into the Berlin night sky in 2006.
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