Qatar now has the final that it craved. “If you spend more than $200 billion staging a World Cup,” samknightwrites notes, “Argentina versus France in front of 88,000 fans feels like what you were paying for.”
On Thursday afternoon, I spoke to Asma, a young Qatari soccer fan who has been radicalized by. Asma, who is in her mid-twenties, normally follows European club soccer, in the form of watching Real Madrid on TV. The first soccer match she ever went to in person was the World Cup’s opening game, last month, a dispiriting defeat for the hosts. After that, Asma watched most of the tournament’s group stage from her home in Doha.
As an approachable Qatari woman, Asma has found herself fielding questions about her country from curious foreign fans. She said, “I think everyone that comes to any Arab country has this question in the back of their minds: How does it work?” At one match, a Brazilian visitor asked her if it was normal for Qatari men to have four wives. “I’m happy to answer them,” Asma said. “It is what it is. My grandfather had more than one wife.” Like Asma, her friends were hunting for tickets.
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