{"id":409561,"date":"2022-12-04T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=409561"},"modified":"2022-12-04T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T07:52:13","slug":"the-heart-of-the-world-cup-doha-metro-brings-fans-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-heart-of-the-world-cup-doha-metro-brings-fans-together","title":{"rendered":"The heart of the World Cup: Doha Metro brings fans together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold line at 10 to eight on Thursday night in Doha. A crowded metro train is heading west towards the Khalifa International Stadium for Japan v Spain. A quick stock take of the carriage reveals the following: one Filipino woman from Hong Kong in a Spain shirt and baseball cap; two Japanese women in face masks talking to two Nepalese friends (one of whom flew to Qatar just for the game), both wearing Japan kits; three Korean-Americans searching for tickets; a family of Mexicans (a sombrero gives it away) rooting for Spain; three rowdy Saudi Arabia supporters; and above the door a calling card from the Argentinians who are never far away &#8211; a Panini sticker of Diego Maradona from USA 94.It was an unlikely combination, but not an unusual one in the city these past few weeks and here&#8217;s the argument: the Doha Metro is the place to be at this World Cup. If you want to spend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold line at 10 to eight on Thursday night in Doha. A crowded metro train is heading west towards the Khalifa International Stadium for Japan v Spain. A quick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}