Written by / Muhammad Al Joker
The participation of a high-level delegation from the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy and the Qatar Cup 2022 in an event held in the American city of Miami stopped me to transfer the experience of sister Qatar in organizing the World Cup to the representatives of America, Canada and Mexico, to benefit from it in organizing the World Cup after three years with the participation of 48 teams in 16 cities, and here I remember a historical incident. In 1981, the brotherly Kuwaiti national team was playing its first match against New Zealand in Auckland as part of the 1982 World Cup qualifiers in Spain, and between the two halves, when Kuwait TV was interviewing the late Fahd Al-Ahmad, may God have mercy on him.. some New Zealand fans gathered behind him, carrying a banner with books. On it: “Return to your beauty.” And on that day, Kuwait’s Blue won 2-1, conquering New Zealand in its stadium, and the brothers continued their victories to qualify for the World Cup.
And before the return match against New Zealand in the same qualifiers, the Kuwaiti Federation announced at the time that the camel was chosen as a “talisman” for the blue in the World Cup, and a large number of camels descended on the stadium, which is a kind of proof that we are not ashamed of our past, but rather we are proud and proud of it in front of the New Zealanders, and it did not end The story, when the brothers’ team arrived at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, as the first Gulf team to reach the World Cup, and two weeks before the start of the World Cup, Fahd Al-Ahmad, may God have mercy on him, noticed the lack of foreign media coverage of the Kuwait team, and one day it happened that a French journalist was in the hotel where he was staying. And he tried to get a statement from him, and he replied that the Kuwaiti national team would withdraw from the World Cup because of the lack of agreement of the responsible authorities in Spain to bring the team’s “talisman” “the camel” to the camp headquarters. The next day, Kuwait’s withdrawal was the talk of all the media in the World Cup, and it began Large numbers of journalists flocked to the team’s headquarters and covered its training, and the Spanish authorities agreed to bring the camel, to be the emblem of Al-Azraq. And the God of the intent behind.
