What you need know about the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Qatar, which runs from November 20 to December 18, is as follows:
When is the opening ceremony scheduled to occur?
Before the first Group A match between the hosts Qatar and Ecuador, the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony will take place on Sunday.
- At 1400 GMT, the ceremony is set to start.
- The opening ceremony was supposed to take place before Qatar’s first game on Monday, which would have resulted in the uncommon circumstance of two games taking place before it. The first game in Qatar was then moved up by a day.
- Guillermo Lasso, the president of Ecuador, announced that he would not go to his nation’s important opening game due to domestic instability.
Where will the opening ceremony take place?
The 60,000-person Al Bayt Stadium, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Doha, will host the opening ceremony.
The Al Bayt Stadium is the most remote but also one of the largest and has a retractable roof. It was named and built after the tents used by nomads in the Gulf.
Who will be performing at the opening ceremony?
FIFA has not yet released a complete list of the opening ceremony performers.
One of the boy band’s seven members, Jungkook, of South Korea’s BTS, announced he will play a song called “Dreamers” at the event.
The Black Eyed Peas, Robbie Williams, and Nora Fatehi have also been mentioned as potential performers for the opening ceremony, according to the Telegraph.
Williams claimed that declining to perform in Qatar would be “hypocritical” of him in an excerpt from an interview with Italy’s Il Venerd di Repubblica that will be published the following month.
According to a rumour, British artist Dua Lipa was going to perform. Shakira was reportedly not going to perform, according to several Spanish media reports.
The Times quoted singer Rod Stewart as saying he had declined a gig in Qatar for “over $1 million.”
Who performed at the 2018 opening ceremony?
Williams, a British pop singer, and Aida Garifullina, a Russian soprano, performed at the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which took place in Moscow.
At the opening ceremony FIFA World Cup both FIFA President Gianni Infantine and Russian President Vladimir Putin made speeches.