Facts

    The World Cup football tournament is the most-anticipated, the most-watched, the most-talked-about event on planet Earth.

    The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world; not only that, but it’s also the most widely viewed and followed single sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet. At an estimated cost of over $14.2 billion, it was the most expensive World Cup to date.

    A combined 3.572 billion viewers – more than half of the global population aged four and over – tuned in to world football’s ultimate competition, according to audience data for official broadcast coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

    Qatar is by far the only country with the highest buying value of any country in the Art market.

    Sheikha Al-Mayasa Bint Hamas Al-Thani, the sister of Qatar’s ruling Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as the Chairperson of Qatar Museums alone, reportedly bought Paul Gauguin’s ‘When Will You Marry?’ In February 2015 from the Rudolph Staechelin family for about USD 300 million, Cezanne’s ‘The Card Players’ in 2012 for USD 250 million, as well as Mark Rothko’s ‘White Center—Yellow, Pink, and Lavender on Rose’—in 2007 for USD 70 million, and works from other artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jeff Koons.