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The World Cup trophy Qatar 2022 landed on Quito in the Airbus A320 from Coke on his world tour, we tell you details of this event.
Post and photos by Diogo da Conceição
as we had anticipated, the world cup trophy of FIFA reached Ecuador last 31 October, continuing the world tour 32 ranked countries.
This second and final leg of the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour took him to South America for Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Ecuador. Quito was the last destination in South America for the World Cup before flying to Costa Rica and the US, the two previous stops to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where the tour ends days before the World Cup..
The Titan Airways A320, registered as G-POWM and in charge of transporting the cup to the 32 participating countries arrived at Mariscal Sucre Airport the morning of 31 October from Carrasco Airport in Montevideo.
This flight arrived with sports journalists, coke staff (Auspicious of the tour) y con la presencia del ex defensa brasilero Lucimar da Silva Ferreira mejor conocido como «Lúcio». After the arrival of the plane with the cup, several media outlets entered to see the cup and broadcast its arrival live before the cup was lowered in a suitcase to a car that would transport it to the Carondelet Palace..
The World Cup had visited us on a previous occasion in January 2014, on that occasion a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of Danish Air Transport (WHICH) registered as OY-RUE was in charge of transporting it. On 2018 although the cup did not reach the country, the tour plane was a Boeing 737-300 of the same Titan Airways registered as G-POWC.
After two days in the capital, the plane left the morning of 2 of November heading to San José to continue with the tour:
- 5-8 November – United States
- 9 November – Canada
- 11 and 12 of November: Saudi Arabia
- 13 and 14 of November: Qatar
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