The node of the South American teams is still chasing the Qatari team after it failed to beat Ecuador in the opening match that brought them together at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor in the first round of Group A matches for the World Cup, which Qatar will host as the first Arab country during the period from 20 November to 18 December.
Before talking about the match, the leaders and kings of a large number of countries in the world, such as: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Jordanian King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, topped the international star Morgan Freeman With the Qatari youth, Ghanem Al-Muftah, in the first paragraphs of the opening ceremony, and he exchanged conversations with him about correcting misconceptions about double standards and how to make hasty judgments.
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The second paragraph of the main presentation of the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar witnessed a new song entitled "Dreamers" to be added to the official song list for the World Cup and bears the signature of South Korean pop star Jung Kook, member of the BTS band, and Qatari singer Fahd Al Kubaisi, until it was announced. Italian referee Daniele Orsano whistle for the opening match.
The Qatari national team underwent a lackluster performance against Ecuador and deserved to lose with two clean goals scored by Ener Valencia, to be the first host to lose their opening match in the history of the World Cup.
Perhaps one of the distinguished records that accompanied yesterday’s match as well, is that Valencia boosted his score as the best scorer in the history of his country with 37 goals, and he also scored the record number of goals for Ecuador in the finals with five goals after he was equal with Augustin Delgado, and he also succeeded in scoring The last five goals in a row for his country in the World Cup.
He also became the sixth player to score a double in the opening match of this century after German Miroslav Klose (2006) against Costa Rica, Costa Rican Paulo Wanchope in the same match, Brazilian Neymar against Croatia in the 2014 edition, and Russian Denis Sheryshev against Saudi Arabia in the World Cup Russia 2018.
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This is the fourth meeting between the two teams, and Ecuador has won twice against Qatar once and a tie in the other, to continue the Qatari team`s knot against the Ecuadorean team and the teams of the South American continent in general, with the total number of matches (13) previous matches, including 9 friendly matches and 3 Official confrontations in the Copa America, and one match in the World Cup.
In the friendly confrontations, the Qatar national team won over Ecuador and Paraguay, and also tied with them twice, and the loss was present in 5 previous confrontations against “Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Ecuador", and managed to score 9 goals and received 17 goals.
As for the official matches, the Qatar national team participated in the 2019 Copa America and was in the Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay groups.
Qatar managed to achieve a draw against Paraguay with two goals, then lost in two matches against Colombia (1-0) and Argentina (2-0), which is the same result as yesterday`s match, meaning that it managed to score two goals and conceded seven goals.
In today`s matches, the Senegalese team will meet the Netherlands in the first group match as well, and the second group matches will start when the English team will meet its Iranian counterpart, and the American team will face the Wales team.

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