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Kamal was standing in front of a store with other immigrant workers, having finished another grueling day at work, when he and, he says, a few others were detained this August.
Without explanation, the 24-year-old says he was put in a vehicle and held in a Qatari jail for the next week, the location and name of which he does not know.
"When they arrested me, I couldn't say anything, not a single word, as I was so scared," he told CNN Sport, speaking from his home in southern Nepal, where he has been working on a farm since he was deported three months ago.
Kamal, CNN changed the names of the Nepali workers to protect them from reprisals, is one of many immigrant workers who want to tell the world about their experiences in Qatar, a country that this month will host one of the biggest and most lucrative shows sporting events: the World Cup, a tournament that often unites the world as millions watch the spectacular goals and carefully choreographed celebrations.
It will be a historic event, the first World Cup to be held in the region, but it will also be mired in controversy.
Much of the preparations for this tournament have focused on more sober issues, that of human rights, from the death of immigrant workers and the conditions that many have endured in Qatar, to the rights of the LGBTQ community and women.
Kamal says he has yet to be paid the 7,000 Qatari riyal (about $1,922) bonus that he says he is entitled to receive from his previous employers, nor the 7,000 riyal insurance for injuring two fingers on the job.
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"They didn't tell me why they stopped me. People are standing there... some are walking with their food, others are sitting down consuming tobacco products... they just stop you," he adds, before explaining that he could not ask questions because He doesn't speak Arabic.
A worker is seen inside the Lusail Stadium during a tour of the stadium on December 20, 2019, in Doha, Qatar.
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Describing the conditions in the cell he shared with 24 other Nepali migrant workers, he says he was provided with a blanket and pillow, but the floor mattress he had to sleep on was infested with bedbugs.
"Inside the jail there were people from Sri Lanka, Kerala, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Nepal, Africa and the Philippines. There were about 14-15 units. In a jail there were 250-300 people. About 24-25 people per room ", He says.
"When they take you to jail, they don't give you a room right away. They keep you in a portico. After a day or two, when a room is emptied, they put people from a country in a room."
Using a smuggled phone, he spoke to friends, one of whom he says took his belongings, including his passport, to jail, though he says he was sent home after the Nepalese embassy sent a paper copy of his passport. to jail.
CNN has contacted the embassy but has yet to hear back.
"When they put me on the flight, I started thinking: 'Why are they sending workers back all of a sudden? It's not one, two, 10 people... they're sending 150, 200, 300 workers on one flight.' ", He says.
"Some workers who were just wandering outside in (work) clothes were sent back. They don't even let you pick up your clothes. They just send you back in the clothes you're wearing."
Kamal believes he was detained because he had a second job, which is illegal under Qatar's 2004 Labor Law and allows the authorities to cancel a worker's work permit.
He says that he worked between two and four more hours a day to supplement his income, since he did not earn enough working six days, eight hours a week.
Qatar has a 90-day grace period in which a worker can remain in the country legally without another sponsor, but if they have not renewed or reactivated their permit in that time, they risk being detained or deported for being undocumented.
Kamal claims that he received documentation at the time of his arrest, which, according to Amnesty International, probably would have explained the reason for his arrest, but as it was in Arabic he did not know what it said and no translator was provided.
Workers rest in a green space along the corniche in Doha, Qatar, on June 23.
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A Qatari government official told CNN in a statement: "Any claim that workers are being jailed or deported without explanation is false. Action is only taken in very specific cases, such as if an individual is involved in acts of violence."
The official added that 97% of all eligible workers were covered by Qatar's Wage Protection System, established in 2018, "which ensures wages are paid in full and on time."
More work is underway to strengthen the system, the official said.
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Some workers never came home
With only days to go before the opening game, pitch issues are a mere footnote, because this tournament has come at a cost to workers who left their families believing they would reap financial rewards in one of the richest countries in the world. world per capita
Some would never come home.
None of the three Nepalese workers CNN spoke to have been enriched by their experience.
In fact, they are in debt and full of melancholy.
The Guardian reported last year that 6,500 migrant workers from South Asia have died in Qatar since the country hosted the World Cup in 2010, most of whom were doing dangerous and low-paid work, often in extremely hot conditions.
The report does not link the 6,500 deaths to World Cup infrastructure projects and has not been independently verified by CNN.
Hassan Al Thawadi, the man in charge of leading Qatar's preparations, told CNN's Becky Anderson that the Guardian figure of 6,500 was a misleading "tabloid headline" and that the report lacked context.
A government official told CNN there had been three work-related deaths at the stadiums and 37 non-work-related deaths.
In a statement, the official said the Guardian figures were "inaccurate" and "grossly misleading."
"The 6,500 figure takes the number of all foreign worker deaths in the country over a 10-year period and attributes it to the World Cup," the official said.
"This is not true and leaves out all other causes of death, including disease, old age and traffic accidents. It also fails to acknowledge that only 20% of foreign workers in Qatar are employed on construction sites."
It has been widely reported that Qatar has spent $220 billion preparing for the tournament, which would make it the most expensive World Cup in history, although this figure is likely to include infrastructure not directly associated with stadium construction.
A spokesman for the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) which, since its formation in 2011, has been responsible for overseeing infrastructure projects and planning for the World Cup, told CNN that the tournament's budget was US$ 6,500 million, without expanding what that cost covered.
Eight new stadiums rose from the desert, and the Gulf state expanded its airport, built new hotels, railways and highways.
All this would have been built by immigrant workers, who according to Amnesty International, represent 90% of the workforce of a population of almost three million inhabitants.
Aerial view of Al Janoub Stadium at sunrise on June 21 in Al Wakrah, Qatar.
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Since 2010, migrant workers have faced delayed or unpaid wages, forced labor, long hours in hot weather, intimidation by employers and the inability to leave their jobs due to the country's sponsorship system, according to reports. verified human rights organizations.
However, the health, safety and dignity of "all workers employed on our projects have remained strong," according to a statement from the SC.
"Our efforts have resulted in significant improvements in accommodation standards, health and safety standards, grievance mechanisms, healthcare provision and the reimbursement of illegal recruitment fees to workers."
"While there is still a way to go, we are committed to delivering the legacy we promised. A legacy that improves lives and lays the foundation for just, sustainable, and lasting labor reforms."
Last year, in an interview with CNN Sport presenter Amanda Davies, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said that while "there is more to do", progress had been made.
"I have seen the great evolution that has taken place in Qatar, which has been recognized, not by FIFA, but by unions around the world, by international organisations," Infantino said.
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"It was hard to breathe"
We are writing about a World Cup in November because the competition had to be moved from its usual June-July venue to the Qatari winter, as the heat is so extreme in the country's summer months, temperatures can reach around 43 °C in June, that playing in those conditions could have posed a risk to the health of the players.
Hari is 27 years old and, like many of his compatriots, left Nepal for Qatar because his family -- he was one of five siblings with only his father at home -- desperately needed money, mainly for food.
Since 2013, Nepal's government-imposed minimum wage has been set at $74 a month, according to minimum-wage.org.
Hari recounts that his monthly salary in Qatar was 700 rials a month (US$192).
Moving to Qatar in 2014, he worked in four places during his four-year stay: a supermarket, a hotel and an airport, but the most difficult job, he says, was in construction, when he had to tile buildings "of six to seven stories high" in oppressive heat, as well as laying pipes in deep trenches.
"It was very hot," he tells CNN.
"The foreman was very demanding and used to complain a lot. The foreman used to threaten us with reducing our wages and overtime pay."
"I had to carry the tiles on my shoulder to the top. It was very difficult to climb up the scaffolding. In the pipe work, there were pits 5 to 7 meters deep, we had to place the stones and concrete, it was difficult because of the It was hot. It was hard to breathe. We had to climb up a ladder to drink water."
"It never happened to me, but I saw some workers faint at work. I saw a Bengali, a Nepali... two or three people faint while working. They took the Bengali to medical services. I'm not sure what happened to him." the".
While in Qatar, government regulations generally prohibited workers from working outdoors between 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. from June 15 to August 31.
But only one of the companies he worked for followed these standards.
He added: "In some places, they did not have water. In some places, they did not provide us with water on time. In some places, we used to go to nearby houses asking for water."
In this May 2015 photo taken during a government-organized visit for the media, workers use heavy machinery at the Al-Wakra stadium being built for the 2022 World Cup. Credit: Maya Alleruzzo/AP /FILE
Working long hours in extremely hot conditions has, according to some non-governmental organizations, caused several deaths and put the lives of others in Qatar at risk.
In 2019, research published in the Cardiology Journal, exploring the relationship between the deaths of more than 1,300 Nepali workers between 2009 and 2017 and heat exposure, found a "strong correlation" between heat stress and death. of young workers due to cardiovascular problems in the summer months.
The government official told CNN there had been a "steady decline" in the death rate for immigrant workers, including a decline in heat stress disorders, "thanks in large part to our comprehensive heat stress legislation."
"Qatar has always recognized that there is work to be done, especially to hold unscrupulous employers to account," the official added.
"Systemic reform does not happen overnight and changing the behavior of each company takes time, as it does in any country in the world."
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"The heat does not usually cause damage by itself"
Natasha Iskander, a professor of urban planning and public service at New York University, tells CNN that heat can kill "in confusing and unclear ways."
"Deadly heat stroke can feel like a heart attack or seizure. Sometimes heat kills throughout the body, amplifying manageable and often silent conditions, like diabetes and hypertension, and turning them into sudden killers," he explains.
"That is why Qatar, in the death certificates it has issued following the collapse of migrant construction workers, has been able to refute the correlation between heat stress and deaths and assert instead that the deaths are due to natural, although the closest cause is work in the heat".
Determining the number of workers injured by heat is even more difficult, he says, because many injuries may not become apparent until years later, when the migrants have returned home and the youth "discover that their kidneys are no longer working, that they have a disease chronic renal failure or that his heart has begun to fail, showing levels of heart weakness that are debilitating.
"Heat doesn't usually cause injury on its own," he adds.
"Workers are exposed to heat and heat hazards through employment relationships on Qatari construction sites. Long hours, physically strenuous work, forced overtime, abusive conditions and workplace harassment determine workers' exposure to heat.In addition, conditions beyond the workplace also increase the damaging power of heat: things like poor sleep, insufficient nutrition, or a room that wasn't cool enough to allow the body to cool down. recover after a hot day.In Qatar, the employer housed the workers in labor camps, and the workers, as a policy, were segregated to the industrial zones,
Foreign laborers working on the construction site for the Al-Wakrah football stadium, one of Qatar's 2022 World Cup stadiums, walk back to their accommodation at the Ezdan 40 complex after finishing work on 4 April. May 2015, in the southern suburbs of Al-Wakrah in Doha.
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According to Amnesty International, the Qatari authorities have failed to investigate "thousands" of deaths of migrant workers in the last decade "despite evidence of links between premature deaths and unsafe working conditions."
The fact that these deaths are not recorded as work-related prevents families from receiving compensation, the advocacy group says.
In its statement, the Supervisory Board says its commitment to publicly disclose non-work related deaths goes beyond the requirements of the UK's RIDDOR Notification of Injuries, Illnesses and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) regulations. , which defines and provides a classification for how to document work related and non-work related incidents.
The statement added: "The SC investigates all non-work related fatalities and work related fatalities in line with our Incident Investigation Procedure to identify contributing factors and establish how they could have been prevented. This process involves collecting and analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses to establish the facts of the incident."
Ella Knight of Amnesty International told CNN Sport that her organization will continue to press Qatar to "fully investigate" the deaths of migrant workers, including those that have occurred in the past, to "ensure that the families of the deceased have the opportunity to rebuild their lives.
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Barun Ghimire is a Kathmandu-based human rights lawyer whose work focuses on the exploitation of Nepali migrants working abroad.
Ghimire tells CNN that the families he advocates for have not received satisfactory information about the deaths of their loved ones.
"Families send a healthy young relative to work and receive the news that his relative died in her sleep," he says.
In another interview, he told CNN last year: "The World Cup in Qatar is really the bloody cup: the blood of migrant workers."
Qatari legislation on outdoor working conditions was strengthened last year, extending summer working hours during which outdoor work is prohibited, replacing legislation introduced in 2007, and further stating that "all work must stop if the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) exceeds 32.1°C (89.8°F) at a particular workplace."
The regulations also require workers to carry out annual health checks, as well as mandatory risk assessments.
"We recognize that heat stress is a particular problem in the summer months in Qatar," a Qatari government official said.
"In May 2021, Qatar introduced a requirement for companies to carry out annual health checks on workers, as well as mandatory risk assessments to mitigate the dangers of heat stress. Companies are expected to adopt flexible and self-monitored working hours at all times. where possible, adjust shift rotations, apply regular breaks, provide free cold drinking water and shaded workspaces, and adhere to all other heat stress guidelines outlined by the Ministry of Worked".
"Each summer, Qatari labor inspectors make thousands of unannounced visits to workplaces across the country to ensure heat stress standards are met," the official added.
"Between June and September 2022, 382 workplaces were ordered closed for violating the rules."
Workers walk towards the Lusail Stadium, one of the stadiums for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in Lusail on December 20, 2019. Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP
Iskander said a hot spot of 32.1 °C WBGT was "dangerous".
"Working at the physical intensity that construction workers in Qatar do for any amount of time at that temperature is detrimental to the body," he explained.
"The regulations were based on the assumption that workers would be able to work at their own pace and rest as needed whenever they experienced heat stroke. Anyone who has spent time on a Qatari construction site knows that workers do not They have the ability to handle their pace."
Knight adds: "The fact that deaths of immigrant workers often go uninvestigated rules out the possibility of further protections being applied, because if you don't know what is really happening to these people, how can you apply and enforce them?" effective measures to increase their protection?
During most of his time in Qatar, Hari said he felt sad.
During the six months that he was taking care of the airport gardens, he watched the planes take off and wondered why he was in the country.
But he had paid 90,000 Nepali rupees (US$685) to a Nepalese recruitment company who facilitated the transfer for him.
He was also told, according to him, at the company he had joined that he would have had to pay between 2,000 and 3,000 riyals (US$549-823) to terminate his contract.
His friends, he says, gave him advice as he continued to work long and lonely days because, according to Hari, he did not have enough money to live and save for his family.
Amnesty International says many migrants pay high fees to "unscrupulous recruitment agents in their country of origin", making workers afraid to leave their jobs when they arrive in Qatar.
Now the father of two children, he works plowing fields in Nepal as a tractor driver, but Hari hopes to return to work abroad one day, with his heart set on Malaysia.
"I don't want my children to go through what I did. I want to build a house, buy a piece of land. That's what I'm thinking about. But let's see what God has planned," he says.
"Our dreams never came true"
Sunit returned to Nepal since August, after working for just eight months in Qatar.
He expected to be there for two years, but the bankruptcy of the construction company he worked for caused him and many others to return without the money they had been promised, he says.
He struggles to find work in Nepal, which means feeding his two children and paying school fees is difficult.
He had dreamed of watching the World Cup games from the roof of the hotel he had helped build.
One of the stadiums, the name of which he does not know, was a 10-minute walk from the hotel.
"We used to talk about it," he says of the World Cup.
"But we had to go back, and our dreams never came true. Stadium activities were visible from the hotel. We could see the stadium from its rooftop."
When helping to build the hotel in the center of the city, whose name he does not remember, he carried on his shoulders sacks of plaster and cement mix, weighing from 30 to 50 kilos, up to 10 or 12 stories, he says.
"The elevator rarely worked. Some couldn't carry it and would drop it halfway. If you didn't finish the job, they threatened you that they would deduct that day's salary," he says.
"The foreman complained that we took breaks to drink water as soon as we got to work. They threatened us saying: 'We won't pay you for the day.' We said: 'Go ahead. We are human, we need to drink water.'"
"It was very hot. It took me an hour and a half to two hours to get to the top. I would get tired. I used to stop along the way. Then I would go slowly again. Yes, the supervisors would yell at us. But what could we do?"
Sunit says he had paid an agent in Nepal 240,000 Nepalese rupees (about $1,840) before leaving for Qatar.
He says that he has filed a case with the police about the agent, since he had failed to fulfill his two-year contract, but there have been no developments.
The owners of the company he worked for in Qatar were arrested for failing to pay workers.
The company did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment, nor to questions from the Business & Human Rights Centre, a human rights group, about the protests over the unpaid wages.
In the last decade, Qatar has expanded its airport, built new hotels, and built railways and highways.
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For a month, he says, he was in his accommodation without work or money to buy food, he had to borrow money to eat, so he and his colleagues called the police, who brought food.
"The police came again after 10-15 days and said they had arrested the people from the company. (The police) distributed food again," he says.
"They told us that the company had gone bankrupt and that the government would send all the workers back home."
"I'm very sad," he adds.
"It is what it is. Nothing would change to be sorry. I'm upset (with the company) but what can I do? Even if I tried to defend myself, I would have lost out."
The SC said it has established what it claims is a "first of its kind" Workers' Welfare Forum, which it said allowed workers to elect a representative on their behalf and, when companies failed to comply with the WWF, he would intervene, demand something better, and alert the authorities.
Since 2016, the SC said 69 contractors have lost their licences, 235 contractors have been placed on a watch list and another seven have been blacklisted.
"We understand that there is always room for improvement," the statement added.
experience and heroism
Qatar, una península más pequeña que Connecticut y el anfitrión de la Copa Mundial más pequeño de la historia, está preparado para acoger a unos 1,5 millones de aficionados durante el mes de duración del torneo, que comienza el 20 de noviembre. Ya se ha informado de la preocupación por el alojamiento para un número tan elevado de visitantes.
No cabe duda de que los focos están puestos en este país del Golfo, como ha sucedido progresivamente desde que se le adjudicó el torneo de forma controvertida hace más de una década, aunque los funcionarios qataríes han negado enérgicamente a CNN las acusaciones de soborno que han rodeado su candidatura.
Esta atención ha dado lugar a reformas, que han desmantelado de forma significativa el sistema Kafala, que da a las empresas y a los ciudadanos privados el control sobre el empleo y la situación migratoria de los trabajadores.
En Qatar, los trabajadores inmigrantes pueden ahora cambiar de trabajo libremente sin el permiso de su empleador.
Pero Knight añade: "Otro aspecto del sistema de Kafala, la acusación penal de fuga sigue existiendo, y esto, junto con otras herramientas que siguen estando a disposición de los empleadores, significa que, fundamentalmente, el equilibrio de poder entre trabajadores y empleadores, el desequilibrio sigue siendo grande".
Knight afirma que los salarios no pagados siguen siendo un problema, ya que el sistema de protección salarial "carece de mecanismos de aplicación", al tiempo que afirma que los empleadores pueden anular el documento de identidad de un trabajador con solo "pulsar un botón", lo que significa que se arriesgan a ser detenidos y deportados. Además, los comités laborales destinados a ayudar a los trabajadores carecen de recursos y "no tienen capacidad para atender el número de casos que les llegan".
Trabajadores migrantes trabajan en una obra de construcción en la zona de Aspire en Doha el 26 de marzo de 2016. Crédito: Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters/FILE
Ghimire está de acuerdo en que ha habido algunos cambios positivos en las leyes de empleo, pero añade que es "más un alarde".
"Muchos trabajadores que se dedican a la construcción no se han visto afectados, por lo que sigue habiendo explotación", dice a CNN.
El funcionario del gobierno de Qatar dijo a CNN que aún queda trabajo por hacer, pero que "la reforma sistémica no se produce de la noche a la mañana, y cambiar el comportamiento de cada empresa lleva tiempo, como ocurre en cualquier país del mundo".
"En la última década, Qatar ha hecho más que cualquier otro país de la región para fortalecer los derechos de los trabajadores extranjeros, y seguiremos trabajando en estrecha consulta con los socios internacionales para fortalecer las reformas y la implementación".
La campaña #PayUpFIFA de Human Rights Watch (HRW) quiere que Qatar y la FIFA paguen al menos US$ 440 millones, una cantidad equivalente al dinero de los premios que se entregan en la Copa del Mundo, a las familias de los trabajadores inmigrantes que han sufrido daños o han muerto durante la preparación del torneo.
Las familias de los trabajadores que han muerto se enfrentan a un futuro incierto, según HRW, especialmente los niños. Los que sobrevivieron y regresaron a casa, estafados en sus salarios o heridos, siguen atrapados en las deudas, dice, "con consecuencias nefastas para sus familias".
Ghimire afirma que las compensaciones son fundamentales, pero también lo es que el mundo sea consciente de lo que ha ocurrido para que se lleve a cabo este torneo.
"La gente se preocupa por las marcas de ropa, y por la carne que comen, pero ¿qué pasa con los megaeventos? ¿No es hora de que nos preguntemos cómo son posibles?", se cuestiona.
"Todos los que lo vean deberían saber a qué precio fue posible y cómo se trató a los trabajadores. Los jugadores deberían saberlo, los patrocinadores deberían saberlo”.
"¿Sería la misma situación si fueran trabajadores europeos los que murieran en Qatar? Si fueran trabajadores argentinos, ¿tendría Argentina alguna preocupación por jugar?”
"Porque se trata de trabajadores inmigrantes de países pobres del sur de Asia, son personas invisibles. El trabajo forzado, la muerte de trabajadores, mientras se hace un Mundial es inaceptable. Como aficionado al fútbol, me entristece; como abogado, me decepciona mucho".
A principios de este mes, el ministro de Trabajo de Qatar, Ali bin Samikh Al Marri, rechazó la posibilidad de crear un fondo de compensación.
Un funcionario del gobierno qatarí dijo que el Fondo de Apoyo y Seguro a los Trabajadores del país era "eficaz a la hora de ofrecer indemnizaciones a los trabajadores y sus familias", ya que el fondo ha reembolsado a los trabajadores más de US$ 350 millones en lo que va del año.
En cuanto a los esfuerzos del SC para garantizar el reembolso de las tasas de contratación, hasta diciembre de 2021, los trabajadores han recibido US$ 22,6 millones, con US$ 5,7 millones adicionales comprometidos por los contratistas, según la FIFA.
El mes pasado, el secretario general adjunto de la FIFA, Alasdair Bell, dijo que "la compensación es ciertamente algo en lo que estamos interesados en progresar".
Una vista general muestra el exterior del estadio Al-Thumama en Doha, uno de los ocho estadios que acogerán partidos del Mundial. Crédito: Karim Jaafar/AFP/AFP vía Getty Images
Se ha informado ampliamente que la FIFA ha instado a las naciones que participan en el Mundial a que se centren en el fútbol cuando comience el torneo.
La FIFA confirmó a CNN que el 3 de noviembre se envió una carta firmada por el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, y por la Secretaria General del organismo, Fatma Samoura, a las 32 naciones que participarán en la cita mundialista, pero no quiso divulgar su contenido. Sin embargo, varias federaciones europeas han emitido una declaración conjunta en la que afirman que harán campaña en el torneo sobre los derechos humanos y a favor de un centro de trabajadores migrantes y un fondo de compensación para los mismos.
El lema del equipo de la candidatura de Qatar en 2010 era "Expect Amazing". En muchos sentidos, el Mundial de este año cumplió con esa máxima.
Como dice Iskander, de la Universidad de Nueva York: "Una de las cosas que no se cubren realmente sobre la Copa del Mundo y en la cobertura de este enorme ‘boom’ de la construcción es la pericia y el heroísmo de los trabajadores que la construyeron".
"Construyeron edificios que eran inimaginables para todo el mundo, incluidos los ingenieros y diseñadores, hasta que se construyeron. Realizaron actos de valentía que no son reconocidos. Operaron a niveles de complejidad y sofisticación técnica que no tienen comparación. Y, sin embargo, su contribución a la construcción de la Copa del Mundo apenas aparece, se minimiza”.
"Giving the World Cup to Qatar was a mistake," says Philip Lahm, former German world champion
"They are portrayed, by and large, as exploited and oppressed. And it is true that they have been exploited and oppressed, but they are also the master craftsmen who have built this Cup, and they are enormously proud of what they have built."
The organization of this tournament has undoubtedly put Qatar in the world spotlight.
The question is whether the world can enjoy looking at what immigrant workers have built, knowing the true cost of this billion-dollar architectural extravagance.