Pele’s Magic, Match And Mediation

The 2022 World Cup pageant is being staged in Doha of Qatar, and all interests and attentions are riveted to the swanky stadiums at Doha where the football geniuses like Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are displaying their soccer skills at their best to hold the much coveted World Cup. The World Cup final will take place at a stadium in Lusail - around 100,000-seat arena- meant to evoke a handcrafted golden bowl by the third week of this month. Lusail downtown where the stadium is located, a report says, cost around US$ 45 billion to build. The stadium is billed as one of the largest undertakings in the Middle East. Lusail is promoted as “a beacon of smart living made with a modernist imaginary for the elite.”