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FILE - Croatia and Canada fans cheer ahead of the World Cup group F soccer match between Croatia and Canada, at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. At a World Cup that has become a political lightning rod, it comes as no surprise that soccer fans’ sartorial style has sparked controversy. At the first World Cup in the Middle East, fans from around the world have refashioned traditional Gulf Arab headdresses and thobes. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Fans’ wild World Cup fashion draws praise, scorn in Qatar

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Brenden Aaronson of the United States comforts Iran's Saeid Ezatolahi at the end of the World Cup group B soccer match between Iran and the United States at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. The United States won 1-0 to the advance in the tournament. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

An arm around a shoulder

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

In this handout photo from the U.S. Air Force, American service members participate in a live broadcast with the hosts of Fox NFL Sunday during their Salute to Veterans broadcast, Nov. 13, 2022 at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. As over a million World Cup fans fill stadiums with cheers and carry heady optimism through the streets of Doha, some 8,000 American troops are running air wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other hotspots in the Middle East mere miles away. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Andrew Britten, via AP)

U.S. forces monitor Mideast skies at Qatar base amid World Cup

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Morocco fans attend the World Cup group F soccer match between Canada and Morocco at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha , Qatar, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Arabs unite in celebration as Morocco advances in World Cup

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. The eight stadiums for the World Cup, all within a 30-mile radius of Doha, are now largely complete. Migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums often worked long hours under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses as their employers evaded accountability, a rights group said in a report released Thursday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup ‘between 400 and 500’

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Canada's goalkeeper Milan Borjan, left, and Canada's Alphonso Davies react disappointed after the World Cup group F soccer match between Belgium and Canada, at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Croatia charged for World Cup fans’ taunts of Canada goalie

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Laborers cheer at a fan festival at the Asian Town cricket stadium in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Far from the luxury hotels and sprawling new stadiums emblematic of Doha during the World Cup, scores of soccer-mad South Asian workers poured into a converted cricket stadium in the city's desert outskirts to enjoy the tournament they helped create. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

On outskirts of Doha, laborers watch World Cup they built

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Osama, 21 years-old, from Palestine works as a street marshal prior to the World Cup group G soccer match between Brazil and Serbia, at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. The World Cup 2010 in South Africa had Shakira. The 1998 World Cup in France had Ricky Martin. In Qatar, the tune that nests itself in the head is the incessant chanting of street marshals, better knows as Last Mile Marshals. Seated all over Doha on high chairs more commonly used by lifeguards at swimming pools, these migrant workers have become a staple of the Middle East's first World Cup. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Singing street marshals are Qatar World Cup’s surprise stars

By Lujain Jo - Associated Press

Fans wave the Palestinian flag and cheer prior the World Cup, group A soccer match between Qatar and Ecuador at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict catches up with Qatar World Cup

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Canadian Modar Safar of Gilbert, Ontario ties closed his tent at a site in Al Khor, Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. For scores of foreign soccer fans, the road to the World Cup in Doha starts every morning at a barren campsite in the middle of the desert. Visitors who found hotels in central Doha booked up or far beyond their budget have settled for the faraway, dust-blown tent village in Al Khor, where there are no locks on tents nor beers on draft. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Remote desert camps house World Cup fans on a budget

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Argentina's Lionel Messi attends a press conference on the eve of the group C World Cup soccer match against Saudi Arabia, in Doha, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Relaxed Lionel Messi determined to savor ‘likely’ final World Cup

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks at a press conference Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Despite scolding, politics finds its way into World Cup kickoff

By David R. Sands, Hunter Roberts and Kyle Lutz - The Washington Times

A falcon sits for sale in a shop in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. Qatar has become synonymous with soccer since winning the rights to host the FIFA World Cup that opens on Sunday. But another sport is flying high in the historic center of Doha as over a million foreign fans flock to the tiny emirate: Falconry. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Fans wait in line for beer at a fan zone ahead of the FIFA World Cup, in Doha, Qatar Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/)

Crowded fan zone turns thousands away before Qatar World Cup

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Fans cheer and wave Brazilian flags in front of the World Cup countdown clock in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Fans poured into Qatar on Friday ahead of the Middle East's first World Cup as Doha ordered beers not to be poured out at stadiums during the tournament — a last-minute surprise largely welcomed by the country's conservative Muslims and shrugged off by giddy fans. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

World Cup fans ready to celebrate despite stadium beer ban

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 5, 2015, file photo, Budweiser beer cans are seen at a concession stand at McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Fla. World Cup organizers reportedly have made another late change in alcohol policy only two days before games start in Qatar by banning beer sales at the eight soccer stadiums in and around Doha. Media reports say Qatari authorities are pressing FIFA to ban all sales of long-time World Cup beer sponsor Budweiser at the eight venues. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Sale of beer with alcohol banned at World Cup stadiums

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Nicki Minaj accepts the video vanguard award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28, 2022, in Newark, N.J., left, and Maluma appears at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 1, 2019. Minaj has teamed up with Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma and Lebanese singer Myriam Fares for the latest addition to the official soundtrack of the World Cup in Qatar. The single “Tukoh Taka” has lyrics in English, Spanish and Arabic. (AP Photo)

Nicki Minaj, Maluma, Myriam Fares release World Cup anthem

Associated Press

People take photos with the official FIFA World Cup Countdown Clock on Doha's corniche, in Qatar, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Hosting the World Cup marks a pinnacle in Qatar's efforts to rise out of the shadow of its larger neighbors in the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Qatar at World Cup pinnacle after years of Mideast turmoil

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Branding is displayed near the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, in Doha, Qatar, March 31, 2022. Qatar recently arrested at least 60 workers who protested going months without pay and deported some of them, an advocacy group said, just three months before Doha hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The move comes as Qatar faces intense international scrutiny over its labor practices ahead of the tournament. The workers' protest on Aug. 14 — and Qatar's reaction to it — could further fuel the concern. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File) **FILE**

Qatar detains workers protesting late pay before World Cup

By Malak Harb - Associated Press

Taliban fighters ride in the back of a vehicle during a night patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. The Taliban are shifting from being warriors to an urban police force. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) ** FILE **

Taliban say they won’t work with U.S. to contain Islamic State

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press