Per editor: Bi Lu Ming
At 23 o'clock on November 20, Beijing time, this international football event held for the first time in the northern hemisphere winter will officially kick off. Hosts Qatar host the 60,000-capacity Gulf Stadium to welcome their first opponent in Group A, South American powerhouse Ecuador. In this World Cup, who will win the championship and who will spend the Golden Boot?
Who will win the championship, who will win the Golden Boot, the Golden Globe?
In this World Cup, which team is most likely to win the championship, and which players are most likely to win the Golden Boot and Golden Ball? In this regard, Fox Sports interviewed 12 football analysts and gave predictions for the Golden Boot (best scorer) and Golden Ball (best player) of this World Cup.
Golden Boot:
Killian Mbappé (France)
Lautaro Martínez (Argentina)
Neymar (Brazil)
Golden Globe Awards:
Messi (Argentina)
In addition, Electronic Arts (EA) Sports simulated 64 matches of this World Cup using the latest EA SPORTS FIFA 23 game. The results showed that Argentina won the championship, while Brazil and France were runners-up and third-place, respectively.
SOURCE, EA SPORTS
Golden Boot:
Messi (Argentina) 8 goals
Depay (Netherlands) 6 goals
Kylian Mbappe (France) 6 goals
Christian Pulisic (USA) 5 goals
Richarlison (Brazil) 5 goals
SOURCE, EA SPORTS
Golden Globe Awards:
Messi (Argentina)
According to the odds given by the China Sports Lottery, Brazil, France and Argentina will win the first, second and third places.
The Qatar World Cup opens today
According to CCTV news on the 20th, on the evening of the 20th Doha time, the 2022 Qatar World Cup, which will be held for the first time in the northern hemisphere winter, will officially kick off. The World Cup opener features hosts Qatar against Ecuador. Before the opening ceremony, an opening ceremony will be held as usual. In previous World Cup opening ceremonies, classic works or scenes such as "Italian Summer" were left behind. How this year's opening ceremony will be, it's exciting.
Visitors take a selfie in front of the background wall of the World Cup mascot on November 18. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
It is understood that the opening ceremony is expected to be 30 minutes long, in addition to Qatari local artists to bring a performance full of Gulf style, well-known singers from five continents will also be invited to sing the official theme song of this World Cup and a number of promotional songs. Balich, creative director of the opening ceremony, said a few days ago that he would create an "unprecedented World Cup opening ceremony comparable to the Olympic Games".
After the opening ceremony, Qatar, the host of the World Cup, will welcome its first opponent in Group A - Ecuador from South America at 19:00 local time on the 20th, that is, 0:00 Beijing time on the 21st. In preparation for the World Cup, the Qatari team has traveled to Europe and the Americas to participate in continental events many times to train the team; And breaking through from the highly competitive South American qualifiers, Ecuador's strength cannot be underestimated. The much-anticipated opener, who will die in the end, will be revealed in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
In addition to being the first World Cup to be held in the northern hemisphere winter, this World Cup in Qatar will also create several "firsts". This is the first World Cup to be held in a Middle Eastern country. In order to host this competition, according to statistics, Qatar has invested more than 220 billion US dollars in related infrastructure, which also makes this World Cup the World Cup with the largest investment in history. There are 6 female referees in the referee team, including 3 referees and 3 assistant referees. For the first time in the history of the World Cup, there will be female referees. In addition, this is the first World Cup in which five players can be substituted in a single match. Qatar has never played in the final stage before, and this World Cup is the first time it has been held in a country that has not reached the final stage. Qatar, meanwhile, is combining technology with sporting events, and this World Cup will be the first World Cup to use semi-automatic offside technology, which will allow referees to make offside decisions faster and more accurately.
A number of "firsts" have added more highlights to this World Cup, and in the next month, let's enjoy this football feast together.
4 highlights of the opener: who can score the first goal? The host wants to make history
At 23:30 Beijing time tonight, the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup will be held, the 0 o'clock opener will begin, Qatar vs Ecuador, although there is only this one on the first matchday, but there is still no lack of highlights, worth looking forward to!
Highlight 1: Who can score the first goal?
Who scored the first goal of this year's World Cup? And when was it born? This is a topic that a lot of fans are very concerned about. The first goal of the previous edition came in the 12th minute of the opener, when the host player Gasinski scored with a header.
Highlight 2: Qatar strives for its first victory in history
It was Qatar's first World Cup appearance, and their opening match was their first, and the most recent team in World Cup history to reach the final to win the opener was Senegal, beating defending champions France 1-0 in 2002.
Highlight 3: The host wants to make history
If it beats Ecuador, Qatar will be the first AFC team to win the first World Cup game, after 10 of the previous 11 AFC teams lost their first match, only to Kuwait's draw in 1982.
Highlight 4: Ecuador rushed to a 16-year record
Ecuador's all-time best World Cup record was reaching the round of 16 in 2006, and the only time in their history to win their first group stage match, when they beat Poland 2-0, will it be repeated 16 years later?
However, according to Baidu Sports, as of 10 a.m. Beijing time on the 20th, a total of 115,500 netizens participated in predicting the results of the first round of Group A of the World Cup, and the results showed that Qatar's win rate was 29%, Ecuador's was 42%, and the probability of a tie was 27%.
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