How is that now? You know, now that sort of dust has settled on the tournament, what do Qataris sort of look at that and how do they feel about it?

I'll give you a people's oral history kind of version of that answer, which is I think there's a general sentiment that life peaked for a month during November and December in 2022.

I think that the whole country was looking forward to the tournament.

A lot of what happened in Doha in the past two decades, let's say, was geared around that big moment.

And the fact that football played out exactly how it was supposed to be, as in Morocco getting to the semifinals, becoming the first Arab team, as well as the first African team to be in the last four, as well as, you know, this whole build up to Messi ultimately lifting the trophy and as well as how it played out in the finals, as well as little storylines here and there except for the home team of course Qatar couldn't perform as they were expected to but other upsets as well as other storylines that played out in the field I think it played out really well so and off the pitch as well it was genuinely a kind of world cup that looked also eastward so a lot of people from south asia as well as other parts of the world traveled to doha as well as the city pretty much received a lot of tourists as well so with that it was pretty happening so that the people's history of the world cup the legacy that it left is everyone looks back back at it and says you know that was the time when life peaked and on top of that a lot of things that have been happening in doha ever since It's built on whatever was built during the World Cup.

The Lucille Stadium, where Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup, was supposed to hold the finalissima between Argentina and Spain this summer.

But it couldn't happen due to the war that was ongoing back then.

Is it as simple as there's a sort of Spanish culture in the country already? Why have they gone for three Spanish coaches in a row? I