World Cup stamps exhibition chronicles tournament’s history
The World Cup Postage Stamps Exhibition will open its doors to visitors today at the Arab Postal Stamp Museum in Building No 22 of Katara – the Cultural Village Foundation.
The exhibition is part of the events organised by Katara to coincide with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The exhibition includes more than 340 stamp plates from around the world, 280 of which deal with football World Cups from the first tournament in 1930 in Uruguay, to the World Cup.
The exhibition also, features a distinct and rare collection of World Cup holdings and includes various memorabilia displaying for the first time with the participation of amateurs from Qatar, Italy and Brazil. The Executive Director of Qatar Stamps and Currencies Club, Hussein Rajab Ismail, said in a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA), that the exhibition will witness the participation of a Brazilian, an Italian and two Qatari amateurs.
In addition to the acquisitions of the Qatar Stamps and Currencies Club Centre, the collections of the Arab Postal Stamp Museum, explaining that the exhibition includes the stamps of the previous World Cup football tournaments that have been released since 1930 and up to date. In addition to a wide range of sports possessions of famous players and football referees from world, such as Brazilian player Pele. The collectibles contain the original shirts of players. referees a collection of cups, balls, medals, memorials and photographs from various football World Cups since the first edition.
He added that the exhibition also has a wide range of tickets of the old matches and messages from players to their fans, in addition to a special stand for stamps issued by Qatar Post especially for the World Cup 2022. He explained that the exhibition will inform the fans and visitors of Qatar about the history of the World Cup from the first edition, to the current edition hosted by Qatar which issued special stamps to document it.