ZAPOPAN, Jalisco; November 16, 2022.- The young graduate of the career of Communication and Journalism from Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara, Yair Rangel traveled to cover the Qatar 2022 World Cup on November 13 and will be there for seven weeks.
"In Qatar my position is called Media Operations Team Leader, which is that I am the team leader of the Education City Stadium media operation. In other words, I am in charge of making sure that the entire media operation at the stadium runs smoothly," he shared.
Yair, who was recently a reporter on the Survivor and Exatlón TV shows, always wanted to work on an international event of that magnitude, stating that "I tried for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but COVID came along and it didn'thappen."
Subsequently, he subscribed to a FIFA portal FIFA portal where he was notified when people were needed for an event, and it was on April 30, 2021 when he received an email telling him that the call for the Arab Cup of Nations was open.
"I uploaded all the documents that were necessary, I went through the filters and finally I was able to be part of the Arab Cup of Nations in the Media Operations of the Education City Stadium," he said.
At that Cup, he met a Colombian named Juan Felipe Mejía, who has already organized international events such as the Gold Cup and Concachampions, and asked him for his contact information, stating that he wanted him on his team for the World Cup. World Cup.
For Yair, covering a World Cup was a dream he had since he was a child. " For a journalist, the greatest thing that can exist is to cover a World Cup", a phrase shared with him by Carlos Guerrero, better known as the "Warrior", while he was in Survivor. while he was on Survivor.
"Going there is an achievement and it's fulfilling a dream I've had since I was a kid, but it's also an extra motivation for what's to come because sometimes you achieve your goals and then you get stuck. Even though I have already reached my first World Cup at the age of 24, I am going to go for the second, third, women's World Cups, lower World Cups".
What Yair would tell his self who once had the dream of studying Journalism, was "Always believe in it, that dreams come true, and that we will simply find many stones in the way. A cool mind is the most important thing, always have clear objectives and goals, and have a lot of enthusiasm.
The Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara is proud of the dedication and effort that has led Communication and Journalism Alumni, Yair Rangel, to cover his first World Cup as a journalist, and wishes him the best of success over there.
