That was a few days ago, but the mystery remains: What was the great actor Morgan Freeman actually doing on the stage at the opening of the World Cup in Qatar? It couldn't have been his passion for football, because, as he once said himself, he didn't understand much about it. Which was already evident in 2010, when he was supposed to be advertising for a World Cup in the USA together with Bill Clinton at Fifa in Zurich and gave a remarkably confused speech until he realized that he had forgotten a page of the manuscript.

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