So after almost 12 years of surprise, suspicion and scandal, it's finally time for Qatar to host the FIFA World Cup.

I'm Adam Levintal here in Doha, and this is the Athletic Football Podcast.

The winner to organize the 222 FIFA World Cup is Qatar.

Today, I have very strong feelings. I can tell you that.

I'm still sort of, you know, getting over, processing some of it,

which was a kind of greatest hits of what about it.

You don't have a World Cup just with stadiums.

You need roads.

You need hotels.

You need irrigation systems.

You need a whole infrastructure to be able to host it.

So migrant workers built Qatar.

So welcome to the first of our daily podcasts throughout this World Cup tournament in Qatar.

Here with me is Matt Slater, our senior football news reporter as we build up to the start

of this tournament. It's all beginning this evening, Qatar against Ecuador. Our England correspondent

Jack Pitt Brook is going to be bringing us the latest from the England camp a little bit later on.

We'll also be hearing from Simon Hughes, who's done a special report on the situation faced by

migrant workers in Nepal.

Now, Matt, it's good to see you.

It's been a, well, let's say, an interesting, a surprising start already to the preamble to this tournament.

We'll come on to Janie Infantino in a moment's time.

But from your point of view, it's here, it's starting, it's happening, we're sat in a hotel in Qatar. Can you quite

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