Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.

Our interview guests today are Juan Pablo, Anhel, and Neil Shaw, a former MLS executive

who has just written a book about soccer in India before we get going, subscribe to my

writing site at grantwall.com. I am in Qatar doing daily coverage of World Cup 2022. That's

grantwall.com. Let's bring in Chris, waiting him. How are you, my friend?

I'm doing all right. I have to be honest, every once in a while, I still get thrilled

by technology and how we can be doing a podcast. It'll sound like we're in the same room

together, but you're in Qatar and I'm in Miami and you're near this event. And I imagine

if we tried to do this like 12 years ago, we would have been doing this over Skype and

it would have sounded like hell. And now it's this wonderful bit of technology where we

sound as if we're doing this podcast about the World Cup. It could be done from literally

anywhere. Yeah, technology. Let's hear it for technology. It's pretty impressive. You

know, you're right. I mean, I remember the 2010 World Cup 12 years ago and I was living

in a house with Gabriel Marcotti, who had an ISDN line installed at great expense in

our South Africa house so that he could have quality audio for his podcast. And that

was sort of earlier days of podcast, but it was a lot of effort and money went into it

that we aren't having to go into here. We're just talking on our laptops.

You travel with the radio studio. It's kind of incredible.

So I am on the ground in Qatar. I got to do on Monday morning and I've hit the ground

running just riding columns the last three days here around the US team. But if you've

got any questions about what it's like here? Yeah. So you've tweeted about a few run-ins

that you've had with the Qataris already. There was a story that went viral today.

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