World Cup Final: This was the Simpsons’ prediction of Qatar’s 2022 winning team

Since its first appearance in 1989, The Simpsons television series has fascinated the whole world. The One Family in Yellow garnered critical acclaim, and society began to identify with Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and even baby Maggie and Grandpa Abraham.

The peculiarity of this series is that, coincidentally or not, several chapters of it have managed to ensure that certain scenes were taken as predictions by fans and even by simple spectators.

Proof of this is episode 179 of season 9, the original premiere of which was on September 21, 1997. In the chapter entitled “New York City vs. Homer Simpson”, Lisa shows Bart a poster, and in this he appreciates the number nine and the two towers in the background form the number 11, thus creating the date 9/11. Some curious believe that, four years before the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in the Big Apple, the Simpsons had already set that precedent and nobody wanted to see it.

Another prediction was that of the injury of Brazilian footballer Neymar da Silva. The scene is part of episode 16 of season 25, titled “You don’t have to be a referee”. The original premiere of this chapter was on March 30, 2014, and it happened a few days before Brazil played a soccer match, in which the athlete suffered a physical injury.

While some football lovers turn to psychics and others to astrology, there are also those who turn on the television and look for clues in an episode of The Simpsons. In the same chapter 16 of season 25, fans assured that the champion of the Qatar 2022 World Cup will be Spain. In the animation, Homer can be seen as the referee of the final, officiating the match against Brazil.

Unfortunately, as we already know, Spain were eliminated last week and Argentina will face France on Sunday 18 December.

According to data from the government of Qatar, the nation received 2.1 million international tourists in 2019; Therefore, in 2022, about 3.6 million visitors are expected to arrive from all over the world.

Since 2010, the year in which the country won the rights to host the World Cup, the Qatari government has prepared itself with different types of accommodation for tourists, such as the 16 floating hotels in the region; as well as developing affordable budgets for travelers with the support of Qatar Airways.