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ah, helping us unpack the hour cup. we have house on a we have lee. we have rob has an ain't and i cannot think what team you could possibly be wrapping for. but please introduce yourself to our national audience. tell them who you are, what you do 1st. so thank you so much for him. on the show. i side my page, my website, my, my pot cost. there are couple pot cars basically to get awareness out there about there are can national team, especially in english because unfortunately when you put into google, iraq, we rock trouble everything just negative. so i try to fix that. i'm bring news to

to the well by rock, people looking for to hang off and you in just a moment, li wellings might as well just moving to the stream office. hello lee. welcome back to the stream. and i know audience who you are, what you day saw a bit o journalist and a bold cost and specializing in school for 30 years and, and also to my family 1st book, the little girl which is about sports and society is coming out early next year. and it shows our concentrates a lot of matters off the page. not just what's happening on the picture. we have so many begets on the day, shall i rob, tell everybody who you are, what you do. yeah, i'm surprised. least not got all his books already behind him, so you were to advertise, it's the world a global sport correspondent, the associated press cover a lot of sickly. all matters on and off the page. so that means a lot of the football pole and 6, how things all intersects with the geo politics the world, but also the font as well, the world cups the olympics. and particularly the last i can say,

the bidding process for the work up and the preparation for the work up in katherine next year. all right, 3 excellent expert. and you audience as well, if you are on youtube right now, the comment section is open for your plan, the tree. jump into the comments section, and hopefully i'll be out to bring you into today's show. the, our comp has quite a patchy history. saudi back in the 960 ease and it pops up every now and again, not regularly. but let's, let's do some posting has a name for that for the team that you love and wreck. a rock has has one more arab cups than any of a nation. yeah, absolutely. i weather though, we can extend our victories to 5 cops. i don't know. seems unlikely at the moment given how we played today. oh, my mom penalty. yes. yes. yeah. for sure. yeah. yeah, it was lucky that very i was used and the result or to when our way, but i mean we hold the record in terms of the most winds we want are 4 times the

cup has a special place for all the rockies. so it's exciting times for all of our i'm just thinking of the out of campus as a tournament. me, how important is it? well is creating huge excitement. there's no doubt about that in the middle east and north african region. the big challenge for the tournament i'm then leading into next year is to increasing excitement global. and this is obviously a told them that there's a very important test bed in many ways for, for you. used to be able to compare to why she's caught that test of that, but now they're using this tournament. there's a lot invested in a i and i think a will k is for the standard of football. and for the excitement that's produced to actually get people to gauge beyond the region, this is what makes the stopper and it's not being shipped to ukiah. have to tell you, or at least if it is i'm,

i've been looking. so there needs to be things that happened, you know, crank clips on social media, get people excited about it because i think the high standards that could be found in this football need to, to get a wider audience than, than just the mean to wage it. well, i'm going to play a tape. i'm to cut our respects him a little bit early on the stream. how to listen to what he has to say them out and me to the back of him with your thoughts. his the arrow called his back and off to be recognised and organized by people. this has brought on, presented attention to the tournament. many sponsors are involved, which means you get a prize money for all the nations involved. 60 nations and will be a charge for the wall to see the venues that we use for the walk up next year. with regards to the favorites, i think our geo, due to the 33 unbeaten street, are probably the favorites for the tournament. with honorable mentions for egypt, morocco and of course host, or who have

a chance of fighting for the tournament. on a personal note, my nation says and will be participating. i hope to please can give the nation something to share about of the recent political events in the country. just so much a reflection of the hope left football can bring to and the region for cats. i think it's a great chance for them to try to prove that to ensure that on the page they had that really amazing run to win the agent cop in 2019 that nobody had any competitive game since then. because of course, qualifying for the world cup automatically is highest. and of course incredibly, but i will cut the ab when they are the house, say they've been playing games in europe recently. and likes of all island to they last say say there's been the struggles, but this is a chance to be able to show that credentials for the players to get a flavor of what it's like to perform a torment on the home soil like that. so they're actually ready for the next year because it's going to be a huge moment for them in

a year's time. and that was a what they achieved in winning they asian confederation tournament. that that's something that the word hasn't been spread everywhere about how good the council it's a maze. and of course the part of the house next year we'll give them a chance of doing really well and that's 11. yeah, i think the not really heard that much in a place that's probably a bit of a reticence for the players. and i say to build a profile to speak to the why the media because they will perhaps fear getting questions beyond their remake. whether it's on human rights or about cats, i was a country rather than them as football as yet it is a challenge perhaps next year to actually start to see cats. i was a football team because these perception was around the big a decade or so ago. and sent that so if cats are no vocal heritage where actually there has been lead going back many decades. there is history of football that they're just not a big country physically just like iceland and only qualified for major told the 1st time at your 2016. so countries do have to take that time off to get the chance

to be at told events. but, you know, we saw in 2019 the asian cop just what they can do that was a told min, nearby, obviously in the, in the u. a. and this is a, it's a chance for the players. they need as much gain time as possible. and this can offer, i said i, i'm just looking at the drivers out for the fees are comp 2021. you are in the same group as, gotta a mang, bahrain as well. how do you think you're going to doing good pay? it really can go anyway, but there will be favorites. obviously they're, they're very good team. they want asian company, 1019. they've played a lot of competitive games recently against big european. so i like to watch to an island and it's going to be interesting to see how they cook without having played a really competitive match in a long time. but they've got very experience squad, and they will be favorites for the whole cup, not just quantifying, from group 8, for the other 3 teams that we saw today on organized team,

they are good in terms of make, maintain in good shape defensively. ok. it's i can tell you the pain that you're having to say latino are great right now. that's time. right. let me move. imagine i should my, to my missing out on some players. most notably my salad. yes. if i thought a bit cheeky, using my most salus image right, when he's not actually playing in the fee for our cup and not reason for that is because this cup of this torment comes when lots of other european leaks playing. some of the biggest stars are playing in those leaks and they're not going to release that player. there was a chaotic football calendar anyway at the moment with some toners being show home didn't like the a couple of coverage which is going to take place in a couple of months talking about the africa cup of nations, which is coming up in january and some of the notions here of course will be

playing in, but i think usually we used to walk over an agent and jerry, as mentioned, and i'm being really powerful with some big styles being missing because of the reasons you mentioned there is going to be more of a chance for, you know, and i should like you back. i know you got to put it back in the tournament, but part no, absolutely. at the top of your form at the moment. so actually, you know how you saw thoughts of how you finish. yeah, but i would, i believe that we actually were missing a large number of players. we have a lot of plays based in sweden. we have a few plays based on the u. k. ready in denmark, unfortunately, to further these plays one able to be released public ups actually impacted us in the same way, i'd say seems like al jerry up. so it's a bit of a confusing situation because i mean, obviously fif, i was kind of taking control of this tournament and other organizers. and yet the place still haven't been released and it's seen as

a frenzy. let me one of the reasons all this is, is how the play of hands rarely because not a doubt to attend to. the complaint stays by the annual football calendar is set out every year in terms of agreements between clubs and leagues all around the world. and they set out through the year, these are the windows when the clubs who pay the players have to release them to international tournaments or qualified. so it states, well there's a well cut baron. european championship or an asian cup clubs have to release the players all, they'll get punish. potentially. this is an extra solomon, so it didn't exist even when this calendar was being formed. so there was no way of mandating liverpool to release my salary sickly when they're already going to lose him for the i asked on it in a few weeks time as well. it's also january, so i wanted to play with is around the hands i suggest. so let me move on a bit because to explain why this tournament is happening is because in a year's time, we are going to be talking about the fees that well come. this basically is

a dress rehearsal be our company is addressing, has all the next year, been holding exactly the same country in the same stadiums. i want to bring up jo gasha raska. she has been looking at some of the most fascinating stadia across kata. and this one is stadium. 974. take a look. ah, the firms will notice when they arrive at stadium $954.00 is that it looks a bit like it was constructed using childrens building blocks. and that's highly too far from the truth just on a much bigger scale. this stadium has been put together with 974 shipping containers. $40000.00 seats, and a metal structure. they cool is a modulus stadium. it has, it's advantages. it keeps costs slow in low as the number of building materials they need to use. and it can be put up relatively quickly. because it may not know that you have been in cost quite recently. how ready do you think cutaways for not

just the arab. com, that's on the way already, but then next year, a year out for the fif of welcome i'm sure is very close to where it needs to be. when i write a couple, i was shocked to how amazing the infrastructure is, how i think there was. but there was still some little deficiencies in terms of administration things. so for example, it took me a just to actually get the up and running. so a lot of issues related to code. we don't, i think this is an important run for pop up to kind of identify where the problems are and, and sold in time full hundreds of thousands of funds all never to do make. there were a couple of questions here on you cheap overseas that people are going to be asking about the situation with labor rights, human rights, li on you should. people are asking not right now. i know a lot of work is being done in that area. tell us more hello, covered this extensively over the years and actually i'm so work

a quote about haven't seen before from the head of the international labor organization and go ha, who said, we've been into office 3 and a half years obviously, you know, not happen before that but that tell them that they may and we've seen really progress in change during this period. the same time we recognize there's a lot of work to be done. now if that same comment at a come from the organizes, you can imagine it being plausible. so actually what we've got here is there isn't that much of a difference between those who are vitally looking into the situation sorry commission day to improve and what you'd hear from those are actually running the tollman. what i'd like to see from the, i'd like to see the engaging with people around the world on this and not being defensive about it. the truth is the truth, that the truth. so if there were issues still there, address them, be open about them, talk about the boat because we know the progress is being made in the middle east. but we also know that it is,

i extremely difficult situation for work or from the poll bangladesh pockets. tom is coming into dealing with these conditions. we know that improved, but most that needs to be done. and i think that's where we are. and i think that actually it's time to make sure that there isn't this kind of almost philip, the journalist around the world are picking on capital by actually bringing up these issues. these issues need to be discussed openly. i'm trying to yes. so go ahead is about how much as well that the changes are enforced. so cats are often lumped together in terms of assessments of working conditions. whereas the work of organizes themselves put in more stringent labor conditions and regulations before the why the country did. then there were changes the labor laws across cas out. now there are still issues with one of the companies build the infrastructure, making sure work is a paid that they're not pay for the right to go to work in the country. they do get that past calls back, they can switch jobs, and those are the things that are highlighted. but undoubtedly cats are,

has changed in a way unimagined all the time that the world cup was awarded. does not say that the reason to give a tournament to a country, but the pressure from human rights groups and from the media has actually accelerated a pace of change. so the organized the work up to acknowledge the fact that has been criticism. but on the other hand, they point to that criticism lights the foreign rights group, say it has delivered some meaningful change to actually improve working conditions . but it's going to be massively in the spotlight over the next year or so typically building up the tournament. typically when the so many projects as well from smaller companies that are distant removed from the work of organize themselves. but everything does get characterized goes as the well cut preparation i saying, and i'm looking here on my laptop. the new minimum wage is coming to effect today, the 1st of its kind in the middle east. and then if i go into a government website, i can also see in focus, labor reform. do you think that this issue with labor rights is going to want to

impact the our cap and then impact the welcome next year? inevitably. well, because there has been a systematic attack on pop up, but what people failed to mention is up as a country in its infancy. and they will inevitably be issues and problems within how the country operates. this is normal, but it was a problem for me is that we have all these western countries and western media. i'm talking about when these countries themselves are built on slave trades. they have there. and i know i don't need to come in there because when i've been had the privilege of covering this from the stall in 2010, it's actually 11 years. an unprecedented situation with a warning to weld cops at the same time, one in russia, 2018, and want to catch our controversially, the whole process with a face for executive committee, of course that we know the issues of corruption around them. i think what's

happened is cats, i was found itself in a position where from the started is to be understandably cautious and defensive. and in a position where it's defending its white house, the tournament when now, 11 years on. and it's the time to actually start embracing it or why bother with told to start actually showing some of the joy and spirits and what's happening in tone and the construction of it and the guidance i price that we haven't really seen over the, over the past few years when the tournament kicks off and i mean the well, what they say for our cup it will be a success because that's what happened with well cuts. and this is a compact to limit that journalist. well, i think appreciate 32 teams there before the expansion to 48. but the next few months there will be a lot of turbulence. there'll be a big spotlight and there's no agenda around the globe. it's only right in scandinavia or germany of the u. k. australia aware of the they're all questions asked about this tournament,

and i think those questions have to be accepted an answer honestly. i think it's all been answered in many parts. we've had a lot of football is obviously protesting from march, almost with vague human rights teachers. but the government themselves and they are having to come out to really tell their story necessarily to sort of talk through or forms the fact you're showing tweets and websites. the announcements can be quite dry. i mean, not let's say get in the substance of detail. i'm just picking up on that previous calling about cats of in a young country can't be expected to say to meet perhaps other standards. well, we're not talking about some complex matters. some of the issues i've lost for years about our work is being made to be out in the heat too long. that has got new rules around that, particularly in the face. i'm a hate all day being paid properly and on time. these are basic standards and yes, there's always some christians, the west just even overnight and last 24 hours. prince charles, our albedo apologizing for britain's past rolling right away and back to kata. if it's ok, i want to bring a muffet a mara, i here to play you making a rough,

but i want to miss muffet and mar because he's heading on something that has a name. i think that you're going in the same direction, which is the 1st, the 3rd well cup in the middle east. hey, that is exceptional. are we missing that story? his method. when you have a end of the video, please response is going to be also an occasion for communities while living here in car to see the great. and there are versity of identity and also to know what to support their national teams who are going to come here come to our purpose of this event as you look only for parties for the whole region. and this is really, would be an interesting, you know, our goal them opportunity to see about yeah, i think he's absolutely spot on. i think this is a torment that needs to happen in terms of it not only being organized by fi for by

being a game that will be broadcast internationally on our football needs this. we have a lot of talented players across the world and we need the, the big games to be broadcasted. we need coverage to encourage scouts and other countries that actually see the parents. we have hopefully giving a chance to some of our better players from ad are both going into different leagues expanding, improving, improving clubs, and that will lead to the gradual development on a proven of our football. what they think i'm going to get you all of them a guest to actually come in italy who you for take will predict will win the arab cup for i'll give you a moment. i don't have a thought about that. well, thank you. thank. let me go ahead. yes, nothing has told me it won't get to. there is a stress test. fully lots of fans coming in from slightly different parts of the world. it will test full of stadiums, but that's going to be a huge thing that's gonna be a culture shock attacker in a years time. what is good is a middle east celebration. it should be the lifting of the boy call of tax. all

does actually enable travel across the region in a year, which looked in doubt even up to a year ago. and what i do take issue a, some of ice around the world who complained about having to move the torment to november, december, when the world's guy needs to accommodate the world by the agent told that they are going to be able to accommodate different climatic conditions. so the media gets a child excited to welcome when it's such a hot bed of passion and fans. it's just all the process behind it was i was making the time consuming in the family voices right. fans are never afraid to put date who is gonna win a tournament. all right, so we spoke to some fans about the our cop. this is what they told us that immediately i sent ann lee rob. i wanted to predictions as well as getting funds fast. marcos and my heart broken in my dna marcos, my team marco is my niece and i'm proud of it. let me explain. you guys why maroka lou in this. erica was show moral class recently have won the african cup of

nations for localized players. those players are the same players that will put this a bit at the arrow cook. those plays know how to win this tournament. i wouldn't be shooting my home country, never known. and there'd be games versus asia. and julia and so time and the end i wouldn't have thought of then the i'm looking forward to the most at p f. our cup is to see how palestine gets on in a pretty difficult group. in my opinion, were victims of our own success. we have player score in croatia, portugal and switzerland over the weekend of because the erica isn't we didn't see those international match the calendar. we weren't able to call up all these players into our squad as such. i think the team most likely to win is turner is one that can navigate these types of problems. one with a good amount of deaf, probably one of the north african sizes from push to pick a winner. i go it tenicia. oh that signs a boat that all the gas ball he can only say one country iceland ain go ahead. easy

turn us. i think they're the only the ones i they they, they one to day had november the 30th fest down. i come to play. all right. denise, me name the county member team to these, nero's well, i want to be different, but i think katha alton is your correct, cassandra? and easy? our i had an advantage hunting advantage, rob dive he's i one, i'm the guy with castle because i've done this, had to him school to die in the win against barbara board and the asian cup final. when i for japan in 2019. so i think the conditions of world place but kathy and another trophy chance i love your boldness. hassan ain leave rob. thank you for talking to us about the fee for arab cop and also what it means for the fee, for well comp. in 12 months time, have a look here on my laptop. this is from a j plus. it's beautiful. everything you need to know about the 2021 fif a arab cup, and it's from a j labs at ha labs on twitter. you will find this

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