Troop, who comes from East Kilbride in Lanarkshire, was one of nine Qatar Airways cabin crew members involved in the medal presentation. The report says the group carried the medals to the stage before they were handed to the Argentina players.
That role brought Troop into close proximity with some of football’s most recognisable figures, including president Gianni Infantino, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Spain’s King Felipe VI. It was an unusual crossover between aviation work and the formal theatre of a World Cup final.
Her involvement reportedly began well before the closing ceremony.
The sequence placed her at three different points of the tournament: the opening ceremony, a host-nation fixture and the final medal presentation. Her duties also required travel from Doha, where she now lives, to different host cities.
Troop’s story captures the scale of a modern World Cup, where thousands of staff members help deliver the event but only a few find themselves standing beside the podium. A family-cited image reportedly showed Lionel Messi and the World Cup trophy nearby, while the rehearsals brought her close to major entertainment figures.
The next storyline to watch is whether the assignment becomes a springboard for Troop’s career in major sporting events-or remains a once-in-a-lifetime moment at the heart of football’s grandest ceremony.