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I don't know how many people would agree with me, but IMO Qatar 2022 was a disaster. Obviously the Qataris were able to splash all their wealth and many of the westerners were in awe. But then, the fans were left high and dry with all the restrictions. What is the point in having a major tournament like this, if the fans can't relax and enjoy themselves? There was this last minute restrictions on alcoholic beverages. And the Qataris very cunningly announced it just two days before the first match, to make sure that all the fans have already booked their ticket. And then there was extreme discrimination against unmarried couples and LGBT people. I just hope that FIFA will never allow regressive countries such as Qatar to host such tournaments in the future.
I don't know how many people would agree with me, but IMO Qatar 2022 was a disaster. Obviously the Qataris were able to splash all their wealth and many of the westerners were in awe. But then, the fans were left high and dry with all the restrictions. What is the point in having a major tournament like this, if the fans can't relax and enjoy themselves? There was this last minute restrictions on alcoholic beverages. And the Qataris very cunningly announced it just two days before the first match, to make sure that all the fans have already booked their ticket. And then there was extreme discrimination against unmarried couples and LGBT people. I just hope that FIFA will never allow regressive countries such as Qatar to host such tournaments in the future.
Yeah, there were organizational issues, but the tournament itself, the football, was quite entertaining.
It was a great tournament, with lots of talented people, and many surprises.
I enjoyed watching it a lot.
It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.
And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.
Well, from the point of view that people experienced different types of situations, it is something that did happen, but I also think that people who enter a country they don't know should at least read its rules, the things they like or the things they they should and should not be done, so we know that this country of Qatar is a country with very strict rules, and that one as a visitor must abide by the rules, so every person who wanted to do what they wanted cannot because they simply cannot Getting to do whatever is like going to a neighbor's house to give orders, when you already know that in that home there are rules and regulations to follow.
I think it would have been more appropriate to say that before anyone start making plans of moving or visiting another country, they should try to find out the rules that govern such a country, and make sure to write the rules down for themselves so that they can easily pick it up anytime and scan through it to remind themselves of one of two things they might have forgotten, most especially, for countries where rules are enforced with stringent order.
Though for me, it will take something really important for me to travel to a country where I am not comfortable with their rules.
