Tomorrow kicks off another World Cup Soccer tournament from Qatar. Soccer is called football everywhere else around the world. This is held every 4 years and is always held in the summer months, but since it is so hot in Qatar, they decided to schedule it in November-December. Of course, our dear Malta can never make it to the finals, but we still follow it passionately, especially when England and Italy are participating. Sadly, enough though, Italy will not be there this year as they missed qualifying by a goal. They did not make it even in 2018, and so they would be out of the final tournament for at least 12 years, if they make it in 2026. This is kind of rare for a big team that only last year won the Euro Championship, the best team in Europe, and now they’re not in the big final tournament of the World Cup. However, we will still enjoy all the games, 3 of them each day over the next month.
Among the favorites are Brazil, England, France, Germany, Argentina, Belgium and Holland. But any team can surprise on any given day. All the games will be played at 2PM, 5 PM and 8 PM, European time. New York time would be 8 AM, 11 AM and 2 PM. My Oregonian friends who would like to watch the games have an earlier start and the games will be at 5 AM, 8 AM and 11 AM.
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