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Lusail, Qatar: Qatar wants the 2022 World Cup mascot of a flying white headdress to symbolise football’s showcase tournament, just as the noisy vuvuzela horn did when South Africa hosted it in 2010. A flying keffiyah headdress named La’eeb, meaning super skilful player in Arabic, is the official World Cup mascot and is omnipresent on billboards across Qatar and on television. “La’eeb is a fun and mischievous character who comes from the mascot-verse, a parallel world where all tournament mascots live,” world football’s governing body FIFA said in its announcement. “He will bring the joy of football to everyone.” The...
