Since it was announced that the 2022 FIFA World Cup was going to take place in Qatar, it was known that many particular things were going to happen., because the cultural clash between the Middle East and the West and the rest of the world was going to be felt and was going to leave countless images for the historical record of football tournaments and humanity itself.
One of these events occurred in the first match of this World Cup, which was played between the host team, Qatar, against the Ecuadorian team, which ended with two goals in favor of the Latin team and zero for the Arab team, awakening all kinds of emotions in those attending the match, Among them was Prince Al Jaf Thani, who was caught on camera broadcasting the match making a gesture that many found comical., interesting for others and perhaps annoying for the Qataris themselves, who have a strict and very questionable policy against the homosexual community.
The gesture in question was the following. During the match and seeing the negative result for Qatar, Thani stood up from his seat and began to shout instructions to the Qatari coaching staff and his players. In the middle of his speech, his gutra, the white blanket scarf that Arabs wear on their heads, which acts as a scarf and has a special meaning for them, moved forward and the prince grabbed one end and pulled it back so that it would not get in the way of his face.
This action made thousands of people unleash their creativity, saying that the prince played with his clothing element as if it were long hair., doing what many girls do when they are showing their hair to the world.
Others went further and They took advantage of what the prince did to make visible the LGBTIQ+ community, demonized by the Qatari government and censored by FIFA, denying players from several European teams the opportunity to wear an armband that had been designed specifically for the tournament as a show of support for gays and lesbians around the world.
Without pigeonholing the young prince into a specific sexual identity or a particular meaning of the moment that made him go viral, Yes, there is still a question about who this boy is, whose face is already famous throughout the world. and it is in countless memes that are circulating all over social networks.
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According to the Brazilian media outlet DOLThe 15-year-old is the younger brother of the popular Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani. Both are members of the Qatari royal family, considered the third richest among all royal families in the world.
Even though she is part of Qatari royalty, Thani has shared her fleeting fame on her official Instagram profile and has shown that she has received all the boom with a lot of humor and affection, thanking everyone fans for the great creativity they have displayed with it. “I’m just here to thank you all for your lovely comments and your videos. I watched everything, thank you so much. You are more than welcome to Qatar. You can come and experience this amazing event, the World Cup. Thank you so much and I wish you all the best.”, the prince said in his video.
On his Instagram profile he also showed the other matches he has attended, such as one of the matches that the Brazilian team played in the World Cup. On the other hand, he has also uploaded another video where he is seen teaching a stranger how he manipulates his money backwards.
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