Enner Valencia scores twice as host nation struggle in first game of the tournament
Predictably, the planet’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas produced spectacular prematch pageantry as Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, like David Beckham, went from spearheading a rival bidding nation to host the tournament to become the face of the first World Cup held in the Middle East.
“We gather here as one big tribe and Earth is the tent we all live in,” said the 85-year-old Freeman on the pitch beside Ghanim al Muftah, a native Qatari with caudal regression syndrome.Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the 42-year-old emir of Qatar, delivered his address in Arabic before finishing in English, a language he speaks fluently having been educated in England.
“For what we Europeans have been doing for the last 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people,” said Infantino, a Swiss-Italian who tried to explain declaring that he felt “gay” and “disabled” because “as a child in school, I was bullied because I had red hair and freckles”.
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