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Qatar opens first stadium built for 2022 FIFA World Cup

| @indiablooms | May 17, 2019, at 10:11 am

Doha, May 17 (Sputnik/UNI) The first stadium, built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, opened on Thursday in Al Wakrah, a suburban area of Qatar's capital city Doha, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

The 40,000-seat stadium was built by Zaha Hadid Architects and has a form of a typical fishing boat in the Persian Gulf, called dhow.


The stadium with the 92-meter fully retractable roof has a cooling system and can be used all-year-round.


The FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in Qatar from November 21 to December 18, 2022.   

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