In less than two weeks, the World Cup will begin in Qatar and while the national teams are preparing for the most prestigious tournament in the world, the attitude of the host country to the workers who sacrificed their lives during the construction of the stadiums continues to occupy quite a few people.
Now, in an interview provided by the son of a construction worker who worked on the construction of the World Cup stadiums and died, he said his father warned of the poor working conditions caused by unimaginable heat before his death in 2018.
Abdus Salam detailed how his father Musharraf Hussain feared he would not survive in an interview with ESPN's Jeremy Shapp as part of the E60 documentary "Qatar's World Cup," which details the plight of migrant workers ahead of soccer's biggest tournament.
"He thought about his family's happiness and future and went there with the hope of a better income," Salam said of his father, who moved from Bangladesh to Qatar in 2014 in search of work.
"After he got the job, he said, 'They don't pay me properly. I suffer to survive.'"
Summer heat in Qatar can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
On August 8, 2018, a day after the temperature reached 115 degrees, Hussain died.
"All he said was that there was too much suffering in Qatar, too much heat. He couldn't bear the heat," said Surma Begum, Hassan's daughter.
"He suffered a lot. It was hard work, but he never let us feel the pain."
Hussan's death certificate states that he died of a heart attack and kidney failure.
His family received the equivalent of $686 from his employer, but were told nothing by the Qatari government.
Since being awarded the World Cup, Qatar has faced scrutiny for the way migrant workers building the stadiums and infrastructure have been treated.
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"The cause of death was presented as a heart attack or stroke, but we don't believe that," Salam said.
"They don't want to tell us how he died."
Low-income migrant workers and other foreigners make up the majority of the country's population of 2.9 million, of which about 380,000 are Qatari nationals.
Since receiving the rights to host the tournament more than a decade ago, Qatar has faced intense scrutiny over its treatment of some of those workers and other human rights issues.
According to the Qatari government, there have been 15,000 foreigner deaths in the country since 2010, but only 39 of them were related to work ahead of the World Cup, which begins on November 20.
Qatar also added that none of these deaths were due to heat.
However, reports around the world said in recent years that the number of deaths among migrant workers who worked building the stadiums for the games reached about 6,500 people.
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