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    Fans have a problem with this year’s World Cup: Host Qatar

    by Dominique Soguel Nov 18, 2022 6 minutes

    Matías Villarruel, a soccer fan from Argentina, has one dream: to cheer his idol Lionel Messi in the star’s final men’s World Cup competition, which starts Sunday in Qatar.

    “When I first heard the World Cup was going to take place in Qatar, I thought that’s so far away,” that the journey would be prohibitively expensive, Mr. Villarruel says. So, with three friends, he rode there from South Africa on a bicycle, pedaling 6,200 miles in six months.

    Yanous Benbousta, a soccer fan from France, takes a very different view. Not only will he not be traveling to Doha, he won’t even be watching the competition on TV, he says, in a personal protest against the way in which it has been organized.

    “It’s scandalous that so many workers died building the stadiums,” Mr. Benbousta says. And he finds the idea of air-conditioning the venues “completely absurd” on environmental grounds.

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