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FIFA World Cup 2022: King Kylian v Prince Harry

Updated on: 07 December,2022 08:02 AM IST  |  Doha
Ashwin Ferro | ashwin.ferro@mid-day.com

It’s not an easy job being a volunteer at a World Cup given the various jobs assigned include ticketing, guest relations, language services, media operations, etc, across the eight stadiums and around 25 official and non-official sites

FIFA World Cup 2022: King Kylian v Prince Harry

France’s Kylian Mbappe & England’s Harry Kane. Pics/Getty Images

The France v England quarter-final is still quite a few days away (on Saturday), but the build-up to the blockbuster encounter has already begun, and it’s most entertaining, to say the least. Given both nations have a rather ‘royal’ history surrounding their kings and queens, some of the royal titles have been handed down to their footballers. While France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe is being touted as King Kylian in some sections of the French media, the English media is not shying away from referring to their skipper and striker Harry Kane as Prince Harry. Meanwhile, French newspaper L’Equipe titled its front page ‘God Save Notre (Our) King’ with an image of Mbappe celebrating one of his World Cup goals with teammate Olivier Giroud. 


A replica of the FIFA World Cup winner’s trophyA replica of the FIFA World Cup winner’s trophy


Volunteers get trophy lucky 


It’s not an easy job being a volunteer at a World Cup given the various jobs assigned include ticketing, guest relations, language services, media operations, etc, across the eight stadiums and around 25 official and non-official sites. So, to express their gratitude to the 20,000-strong force of local and international volunteers here, the tournament’s organisers celebrated International Volunteer Day, on December 5, in a unique way. The World Cup winner’s trophy—the Jules Rimet trophy—was made available to the thousands of volunteers at the Doha Exhibition Centre, where they could take pictures. Inevitably, there were broad smiles all around as everyone said “cheese” posing alongside football’s biggest prize. 

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