The Netherlands and Senegal will play the opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup on November 21 due to requests from the Qatar Federation and American television. The world football body, FIFA, told the Dutch federation (KNVB).
Traditionally, the host country of the World Cup opens the ball. The meeting between the A1 team resulting from the draw (Qatar) and the A2 team (Ecuador) had also been initially positioned at 1:00 p.m. local time, 11:00 a.m. in Belgium, at the Al-Bayt stadium, in Al-Khor , on all documents provided by FIFA, which changed its schedules late Friday evening, when broadcasting the match program a few hours after the draw.
