With only a short time left until the World Cup, Qatar’s response to the fans has run into problems.
The water ran out and the cooling system malfunctioned at the last rink, and chaos erupted at the end of the match.
Two months left before that Qatar It is meant to welcome fans from all over the world to the World Cup, but when it was repeated on the island in one of the World Cup stadiums, it ended in chaos.
The last stadium, Lusail Stadium, resumed the Lusail Premier Cup between Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal and Egypt’s Zamalek, a match that filled 78,000 of the stadium’s 80,000 seats. Although the match was held in the evening, the late summer heat still hung in the air.
The thermometer showed 34 degrees and spectators needed a lot of water to handle the heat. The only problem was that all the water on the field was already out in the first half and there was nothing outside.
The cooling system also did not function well enough to adequately cool the audience.
The problems did not end there.
When the audience left the arena to return home, a two-kilometer queue formed at the subway station, 400 meters from the circuit.
– This is chaos, says Islam from Egypt and continues:
– I don’t want to go to the restroom anymore, not if it has to be like this.
At least one of the security personnel was injured when someone tried to force their way into the subway. People with young children asked for help and many asked for water.
The organizer says in a statement that an important lesson has been learned before the restroom.