The Human Cost of Qatar’s World Cup

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In a few short weeks, one of the most controversial sporting decisions in recent memory will become a reality – Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup. Almost everything from the selection process itself, to the claims of human rights abuses, to the promises made by Qatar’s government to improve conditions for migrant workers, has been thrust into the spotlight on the world’s biggest stage. Since it was awarded the world cup in 2010, more than 6,500 workers have reportedly died in Qatar, one of the richest countries in the world and one that has spent $220 billion to build stadiums and infrastructure. Jeremy Schaap traveled to Qatar’s capital city of Doha, where he visited the new stadiums, and spoke with workers and government officials…and he tells us what could be the true legacy of Qatar’s World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeremy, you have been covering this story, the story of Qatar's World Cup for nearly
0:06.1	a decade now.
0:07.8	And you open the culmination of all of that work this hour long E 60 special airing on
0:12.8	Sunday with the scene of the migrant workers who helped build all of the infrastructure for
0:18.2	the tournament, the stadiums, the hotels, the roadways and so on.
0:21.6	And they're playing soccer.
0:24.0	Tell me about that scene.
0:26.0	Back in May, almost six months ago now.
0:29.5	We went back to Qatar to do this follow up to see, you know, what's happened in the
0:34.8	eight years since our last visit, what hasn't changed, what has changed.
0:39.3	And one of the first things we went out and taped was this group of foreign workers in
0:47.9	Qatar playing a game of soccer at a school.
0:52.1	I think it was a seven on seven in a small field closed in by wire fence.
1:09.0	And this was how they were spending their day off playing soccer.
1:12.4	They have a leap.
1:20.3	They were excited about the World Cup.
1:22.6	They were excited about the fact that it was coming to Qatar.
1:25.3	They were hopeful that they might get a chance to see it, you know, to go to the games in
1:30.5	person.
1:31.5	Are you excited about the World Cup coming here?
1:33.6	I'm very, very excited.
1:35.8	And I want to see some of this stuff.
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