{"id":178,"date":"2023-01-15T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/?p=178"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:04:01","slug":"2022-summary-pele-fifa-world-cup-qatar-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"2022 Summary: Pel\u00e9, FIFA World Cup Qatar &#038; Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament, held in Qatar, took place from November 21 to December 18, 2022, being the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East and the first to be held in November and December, instead of the traditional June and July. The tournament was played across 8 venues in 5 cities in Qatar. The final was held at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Lusail, a city that was under construction at the time of the tournament. The tournament&#8217;s format was similar to that of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, with the teams divided into eight groups of four, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/argentina-celebrating-world-cup-2022-final.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/argentina-celebrating-world-cup-2022-final.png 770w, https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/argentina-celebrating-world-cup-2022-final-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/argentina-celebrating-world-cup-2022-final-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina won the final against France, by penalties, 4 to 2 after matching 3 goals to 3 in the field playing time. Mbapp\u00e9 scored a hat-trick, also receiving the golden boot for most goals done in the tournament. Messi scored 2 goals, one of them being a penalty. He was named best player of the tournament. Argentina was awarded the biggest amount of penalties ever in a World Cup, topping at 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last news from 2022 was Pel\u00e9&#8217;s passing, the 29th of December in the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, at the age of 81. Edson Arantes do Nascimento was labelled &#8220;the greatest&#8221; player of the 20th century by FIFA, also considered by many important players worldwide as the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pele-bicycle-kick-lateral-view.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pele-bicycle-kick-lateral-view.png 800w, https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pele-bicycle-kick-lateral-view-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pele-bicycle-kick-lateral-view-768x531.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many current and former soccer players have taken to social media to express their condolences and pay tribute to Pel\u00e9. They have shared memories of the time they spent with him, and have spoken about the impact he had on their careers and on the sport as a whole. Fans have also been sharing their favorite memories of Pel\u00e9 and his incredible goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament, held in Qatar, took place from November 21 to December 18, 2022, being the first World Cup to be held in the Middle East and the first to be held in November and December, instead of the traditional June and July. The tournament was played across 8 venues in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bicyclekick.football\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}