Audience figures for Asian Cup hold out promise for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup

The Asian Cup finals last January set new domestic television audience records. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA

If television audience records for this year’s Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup finals in Qatar are anything to go buy, Qatar can look forward to achieving new viewer records when it hosts the World Cup in 2022.

The Asian Cup fin…