Monday June 13 has been declared a public holiday for officials in Peru to watch the national team’s match against Australia in the 2022 World Cup play-off, the government announced on Friday. “It was decided that Monday would be a holiday for the public sector. This will allow the population to see the national football team qualify for the World Cup“, declared to the press the Minister of Culture Alejandro Salas.
«This is an event of nationalism and national identity that the private sector can join“, he added after a meeting of the Council of Ministers, where the measure was approved, while advancing: “We know that Peru’s qualification for the World Cup will reactivate the economy».
Peru face Australia on Monday at 6:00 p.m. GMT (1:00 p.m. in Lima) at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, west of Doha, Qatar, where the World Cup will be played at the end of the year. The winner of this intercontinental dam will find themselves in Group D of the tournament, with France, Denmark and Tunisia. Peru dreams of a second consecutive participation in the World Cup, which it had found in Russia in 2018 after 36 years of absence.