TVE silenced the ceremony

The World Cup kicked off at Bayt Stadium with a ceremony unique to the Olympic opening and the Superbowl Halftime Show.

In World Cups, the ceremonies are always during the day and this time the night allows the organization to play with lights and projections. Qatar, despite being an authoritarian regime, has not achieved the almost robotic synchronization typical of other dictatorships such as China in group choreographies. As always, wide shots favor the show. After the suspense of the countdown, the team consisting of Juan Carlos Rivero, Lourdes Garcia Campos Y Marcos Lopez They commented on the ceremony. The chain had a serious audio problem that was ruining the transmission. The voice of Morgan Freeman, master of ceremonies, was barely heard with minimum quality or understood what he said. It filters out the ambient sound creating an eerie reverberation. Rivero Y Garcia Campos they translate by approximation: “He says that…”. An interpreter is missing, which perhaps weakens the botch dimension. The Emir’s son’s speech also remained a mystery due to the absence of a translator.

During the ceremony, Naranjito comes back to life and is sucked into the camera. The party, shrouded in sensationalism, has lost its narrative unity. The allegorical gesture of Freeman and the disabled World Cup Ambassador holding out his hands, emulating ‘The Creation of Adam’ from Miguel Angel, it is forced and tricked. He tried to hide an inclusive social message in a country that is not inclusive. But symbolically, the image conforms to the pre-eminence of masculinity that prevails in the country.

Repeated press interventions during the build-up to the ceremony loaded the climate. In contrast, on Mundial Gol, the Movistar+ channel, they let the show do the talking and the commentary team only intervened to provide the context. In this chain, correctly connected audio makes it possible to understand Freeman.

At the level of success, we see the Qatari tradition of giving prominence to the country’s authorities. During the ceremony they included some old archive photos of the Emir of Qatar playing soccer and moved the action continuity to the box, signing the old shirt like a soccer star. A way of selling the supposed tradition of soccer and making propaganda of the evolution and power of the emirate: from amateurism to a World Cup. FIFA president’s minute of glory, Gianni Infantinohe didn’t have it at the ceremony but before the game.

In La1 the party served to show the team that will report the competition. “Twenty-four years since we offered a World Cup match” announced Arsenic Canada. The head of sports of the chain manages the presentation of the team of commentators: Iker Casillas, Carlos Marchena Y Andres Iniesta as winners of one World Cup, Santi Cazorla as holder of two European Cups and Chapi Ferrer as an Olympic gold medalist. An alignment with a brilliant football record but poor communication skills. Except ferrer, with the background and obviously he studied the teams a little, what becomes the tragic inertia happened: former soccer players without any concern to make interventions that made a difference. They give the same topics as when they attend interviews in the field. They do not show any initiative so that their contributions are enriching and interesting. They work with amazing bending.