{"id":1172962,"date":"2022-08-10T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/qatar-2022-world-cup-to-start-a-day-earlier\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:53:33","slug":"qatar-2022-world-cup-to-start-a-day-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/qatar-2022-world-cup-to-start-a-day-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022 World Cup to start a day earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fifa-world-cup-trophy-220401-display-g-1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"World Cup trophy\" title=\"World Cup trophy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Cup trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The World Cup in Qatar will kick-off a day earlier than scheduled if FIFA\u2019s ruling bureau agree to a plan to hold the opening ceremony and the host nation\u2019s first match on Sunday, November 20th, a source close to the discussions told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan was for the opening ceremony to be held before Qatar\u2019s game on November 21 against Ecuador \u2014 which created the unusual situation of two matches being held before the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the ceremony is conducted before the kick-off of the first game of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Group A match between Senegal v Netherlands and the Group B match between England and Iran were scheduled to take place before the ceremony on the Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plan has to be voted on by the heads of FIFA\u2019s six regional confederations and president Gianni Infantino but, despite the late notice, it is expected to win support.<\/p>\n<p>The switch to a November 20 opening ceremony and game would allow the Senegal-Netherlands match, scheduled for 1300 local time on November 21, to kick off later in the day. The Group B matches on that day, which also include the United States v Wales, would be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"U7OuxvO-WeY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam  on Adom TV (10-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U7OuxvO-WeY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup trophy The World Cup in Qatar will kick-off a day earlier than scheduled if FIFA\u2019s ruling bureau agree to a plan to hold the opening ceremony and the host nation\u2019s first match on Sunday, November 20th, a source close to the discussions told Reuters. The original plan was for the opening ceremony to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,473,6411,2457,2027,784],"class_list":["post-1172962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-day","tag-earlier","tag-qatar","tag-start","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}