Did Qatar build a whole city for the World Cup?
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A little over 10 years ago, 10 miles north of Qatar would have been a sleepy fishing village, and not much else. This place would become the location for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Fast forward to today and a futuristic metropolis filled with the latest technology and engineering practices is nearing completion.
Did Qatar build this city just for a World Cup? David Goldblatt reveals what this new city will be like. Illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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Okay, the Lusail Iconic Stadium will seat a lot of people, but not quite 80,000,000.
Well done to all those that spotted the typo. Tifo points to you. 👏
Lusail Iconic Stadium will seat 80,000
If you'd like to view more videos on the Qatar World Cup, and why its so controversial, check out out Qatar World Cup playlist at the end of the video, or check out The Athletic's article addressing the controversy: theathletic.com/3219102/2022/03/31/why-world-cup-2022-qatar-controversial/?source=video_youtube_contentvideo
What a huge corrupt disaster
Fr
I’ve lived in Doha for a month with my father who was managing the brand new airport. I can confirm nowhere in their lexicon exists the word “sustainable”.
Having lived in Dubai for 4 years, I'm pretty sure the word "sustainability" probably has something to do with Golf Carts and Courts, massive car centric suburbs and artificial islands, maby even a few solar panels
After the WC, it's either gonna be a ghost town or filled with foreigner
@@hanszer0729 Qatar barely has local people to begin with
It’s not a new airport, and we have sustainable buildings here. I’m sure we have more secure future than wherever you idealise.
@@qataribananahamock1495 the oil rigs say differently mate
I hope like for 2018 that Tifo does a WC preview for each group in Qatar, that was enjoyable before the tournament and a story of qualification as well!
That series was amazing. Hope they do it again
He will do it
@@strangedragon9018 Any ideas when?
WC = flush toilette??
@@rozafisheikh7968 Closer to the start of the tournament is a good guess, still pretty early now
80 million stadium capacity is quite something. For only 1 billion dollars as well!
Somebody did not do their job to see the video before it went on TH-cam
They are a corrupt country, they are making players play in a graveyard
he meant 80 thousand
@@mrgadget317 REALLY???!!!??
@@mrgadget317 He meant 80 million actually. He just read it wrong
80,000,000 capacity stadium? Now that would *actually* be iconic
80 mil capacity would wreck the previous record
Bruh 80mil is more than worlds top 1000 stadium capacity combined
Sounds like the imaginary UEFA Champions League Stadium. You know, the one with those stars-shaped roof
4:11 for the typo. They might take it down and update it since it hasn't been up for too long
That is almost the whole population of Germany 😂 how would that even work?
theres no doubt that Qatar went above and beyond in order to properly host the world cup, but i think what people keep forgetting is the way they treated all the workers and labourers in the process.
How long are you gonna keep crying abbout that?
@@maazins5875 probably untill those workers get some semblance of justice?
Which is why I won't be watching the world cup
@@pbh81 pls watch it we cant do it without you :(
literally no one forgets that, its just that we've come to terms with the harsh fact that we can't actually do anything for those who were mistreated or killed and that the tournament is happening regardless of what it cost and complaining about it as if we don't all know its awful does nothing to help anyone. There will be no justice, we can't help after the dark deeds are already done and by all means it looks like this tournament may even be a success barring some horrific accident or attack of some sort.
All we can really do is hope this tournament goes smoothly and no one else is hurt or killed in the process, because, and you surely know this, you cannot fix the injustices that have happened in Qatar, not by boycotting, not with a hashtag, not with a prayer. I hope justice comes to those responsible (doubtful) but I do respect the immense work and thought put in by all parties not responsible for human harm.
The world cup is about brightly painting football in a particular culture. The best memory I have of that was South Africa. This world cup will have the culture and vibe of a shopping mall/ expo centre
That was the worst world cup with all those bees flying around
@@GamerFrisco I loved the sound, it was unique and intense
i liked that wc too
@@GamerFrisco whatever it was, it'll still be far better that this shopping expo world cup
@@bored_grape Sadly likely
This comes very much across as a Qatari tourist board video
True, most of the stuff mentioned in the video are not even finished and they won't be ready in time for the World Cup
If you have to call your stadium "Iconic," it probably isn't iconic
I think any stadium that can hold 80 million spectators deserves to be called Iconic
@@iancypes5911 😂😂😂 did u just say 80 million😂 recheck that number. More like 80,000
@@AlexisRios100 bruh
@@thhhhms what
@@AlexisRios100 the video has a typo saying 80 million and they're making a joke about that
This felt bizarrely softball given that tifo has been critical of Qatar in the past. This video gave an interesting insight into how far governments will go to promote their global image but seemed to totally neglect the loss of life and stories of (mostly migrant) workers who paid the real cost to build it
It's because of the atlethic
They decided to "stop doing politics"
No doubt have been paid off ... now an advertising branch of Qatar government.
I missed the SIC, the Sacrificing Immigrant Cemetery, but perhaps that is still in the planning phase...
MotoGP has been racing at the Lusail Circuit since 2004. It was a baron wasteland back then, but now in the background is an ever-increasing metropolis. i.e. there was a race circuit in Lusail long before any city existed.
”This video is sponsored by Qatar” -Tifo probably
💯
So basically you are not allowed to give a credit to any qatari achievement because if you do you have been sponsored or payed ! What a pathetic logic 😂😂
@@se2936 Praising something that has cost human lifes and treat workers as slaves is ok?
@@se2936 oh yes can se like praise the efficiency of the us’s cotton industry
-1840’s man
@@helli0n73 SLAVES !!? 🤣🤣 the sad thing that you are just hearing from one side “THE WEST MEDIA” the side who lost against qatar so that’s why they are salty and they will try everything to make qatar looks bad , with this mega projects including building new city from the scratch building new metro building 8 stadiums it will eventually occurs some injuries and even some deaths , but have you heard what qatar provided to the workers? Villages have been provided specially for the workers including small medical centers, free food and drinks + entertainment like cricket, football, etc… ( so next time don’t look to the picture from one side be smart 😉)
Nice travel ad for Qatar there
You would consider that a travel ad only if you consider that what they show is attractive. I find that absolutely disgusting. Although I agree that the video lacks some measure of criticism.
The animation on this channel is just impeccable
What a good PR piece this is for Qatar. Not one critical thought or analytical comment throughout the whole video, just parroting Qatari marketing lines.
Absolute bizarre tourist video this. Not a single point about passports being withheld, unsustainable work hours and the pay problems. What is this distopian video
@@BocchitheRock132 but that has nothing to do with what he’s talking about tho.
@@porafriken it has everything to do with it. Tifo is a massive football channel and not talking about qatars dirty business in relation to this world cup is bizarre.
@@BocchitheRock132 everyone already knows about it. idk what ur trying to achieve by parroting the same points. it’s not gonna stop the wc from being hosted there
@@BocchitheRock132 They have videos talking about this in detail.
Was expecting - and hoping - this to be a video on the human cost and actual slavery that allowed such a monstrous city to be built in such a short amount of time. This has been mentioned before on the channel, and the tifo team seem to be very much aware and against this, so why they decided to make a 5 minute video hailing the incredible state of Qatar and their amazing city planning and wealth is beyond me. A city built on the graves of those who built it should not be applauded.
Amazing what a bit of money will do
Because it’s not all doom & gloom.. we get enough of that already.
@@ChongzyGamer no but it is reality, deal with it
Every city was built on the graves of its builders: London, Paris, New York. It’s a sad reality of life
@@Jedt82 true, and also terrible but that was in a time where that was commonplace, predating the human rights act etc. I can only assume that there weren't football TH-camrs around going "wow this will be so much fun!"
Could've summed this up with one phrase: Migrant Worker Abuse
80 million seater stadium.... the traffic will be a nightmare before and after!.
The stadium would be so big, you could fit a lot of living quarters in there, along with malls, schools and whatnot. You never leave the stadium and you get everything you need :D
Qatar hosting the world cup is about as legit as my Nan hosting a rave.
Although it is good to be informed on new stuff that are happening and this video is very informative, I felt that the video feels like a promotion on "look how good Qatar has become". Each to their own, but I don't feel like this is a good message to send.
I was hoping to see another comment like this. Even if they've done this unintentionally, it comes across as an ad for Qatar tourism
I feel as though it’s the opposite. The casual way the video mentions all of these insane feats of engineering and land development, all for a World Cup, seems purposefully satirical and is meant to expose how ridiculous the oil-rich owners of Qatar are.
100%. Every Tifo video on the 22 WC has been critical, while being informative. In June, the athletic writers were told by the WSJ not to express their political beliefs, and part of me wonders if this is an extension of that. The majority of our media has went from denouncing the World Cup for years to getting into the hype cycle 6 months out.
@@samrowe8752 They have been owned by The New York Times since about January/February, not WSJ, so that's either inaccurate or false
@@samrowe8752 Every single article written by The Athletic regarding Newcastle United and every video tifo has produced after the Newcastle United takeover has included something about the Saudi human rights abuses which is absolutely fair enough. Now they are essentially doing free (hopefully) advertising for Qatar. It is so hypocritical and quite embarrassing tbh. The bare minimum is to be consistent!
Not sure how this video is specifically about football, it felt like an infrastructure video for the B1M 🤣
Lmao 😂 yes
The B1M would have included a word or two about migrant workers.
For a second or two I thought I was on B1M lol.
I love this channel and the way you do videos about everything football, but the mapping and graphics in this video really appealed to the architecture and planning sides of my interests as well. As always keep up the amazing work :)
Your on-screen text gives a stadium capacity of 80 million!!
A wicker stadium? Iconic, indeed.
Qatar is like Richie rich trying to buy friends.
do like how the capacity listed on screen is 80,000,000 when explaining the stadium zone. gonna seem pretty empty when only 80,000 turn up
It's funny to see how all these once young and upstart football channels that were happy address the nastier sides of what was going on in Qatar all turn tail and "repeat the line" like a bunch of good boys now that this world cup is so close. Probably something to do with where the money that now funds you comes from. The Athletic is a soulless entity and I have found myself really missing the early days of Tifo since they came on board.
I thought I was the only one all the vids they used to make when they were umaxit are either long gone or I have to go to the tifo irl channel
80 million is no joke 😅
Comma placement aside, love the vids
we have now answered the question; what would happen if Tifo made a B1M video.
Soulless city and soulless WC
What about the atrocities committed by the British during colonial rule in India and Caribbean? What about the thousands killed by USA in strikes in Iraq or Afghanistan?
I guess you are soulless only if you don't belong to the western part of the world.
Plenty of souls perished building it though
Nope
Next: Will Man United spend their whole summer on chasing one player who doesn't even want to join their club?!?! 🤔😏
SMS, Savic?
The answer is yeah, probably. United don't seem to understand they're not a powerhouse anymore
@@OzbyBray Yes. probobly. I am a Lazio fan, so I hope he will stay, er dont have the economocs to buy players like this. And yes, why go all in on a player who dont seems to want to go there!
No, they've made three good looking deals already, and there's a month left to do more
@@andystewart3421 Ok, nice! Midfielders?
I visited a friend who lived in Lusail. It's pretty empty right not but I can see it being moderately habited, there's already a fair amount of people visiting Vendome. (Massive mall) and the Marina area.
Can't wait for this Worldcup to be over. Worst WC before it even began, so much wrong with it there is no way I can actually enjoy it one bit.
I guess you would enjoy it if your country won the tournament, ryt?😀😀😀
@@nyantakyibannor9328 I won't watch it either way. And for the last three world cups I watched every single match.
(And it's not because my country has no chance of winning; it pretty much has, but I don't care.)
good, dont watch it then
@@nyantakyibannor9328 you support genocide
@@maazins5875 you also support genocide
does that 80m capacity include all the souls lost during the building process??
The city of Lusail was built for MotoGP and Johann Zarco
4:08 capacity 80 million? That’s quite a big stadium
love tifo but this is giving me a very dystopian picture of Lusail.
I came to the comments to see if anyone pointed out the 80,000,000 error 🤣🤣🤣
Still… imagine the size of an 80M capacity stadium… 👀
I'd like to see an edited picture of the Camp Nou where the stands go up in the sky, until the capacity reaches 80M.
Just to add: Waste collection in Lusail is done by Pneumatic waste collection system, which is fully automated waste collection system with very very low carbon footprints and proper waste sorting.
4:22 80k not 80M right lmao
qatar's population is like 3M lmaoo
80million capacity, man that’s incredible
Not as incredible how they mistereat their workers
Man i would ve loved to go lol 😂 but no money crisis here in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 inflation so fly tickets sky rockets 🚀 😢
So they made a City perfect for Gareth Bale
Me wondering what happened to the villagers of Lusail
They all left to be in comfortable villas in developed areas
@@YanbuQatar you kidding right😂
Nope.. They're all living comfortable luxurious lives
No wonder Bale wants to go to the world cup 2:31
It's unethical and all that but it is mad how they can make a full city from stratch in a couple of decades like Sim City or something
If you have enough money and people to throw at a problem, nothing is a problem anymore
@@thhhhms Especially when you don't need to recover either money or people from it.
@@thhhhms Especially when the people are basically free
Slavery built the pyramids and other wonders too 🤷🏻♂️
@@JonathanRodriguez-nz9nw except it I didn’t … pyramid builders were free. Look did Egyptian use um slaves In construction yeah they did … but the pyramids were not. The workers we’ve found on a grace site seems to have evidence this people ate beef and otjer comoditities ,meaning tjey were paid well seems the pharaoh wanted his vanity project to be built by the most enthusiastic workers
@4:08 Narrator say 80,000, but text says 80,000,000.
Its just Dubai 2.0 only on a smaller scale.
80,000,000 capacity!!🤯🤯
Yea....no
The street "modelled after Champs Elysées" is a 10 lane motorway with naught but a petrol station on its side. True, it does lead to a mall named "Place Vendôme", which fetishises anything French, but there is a giant bridge that blocks the facade 🤣.
I rather have a plate of biryani ay the petrol station to be honest.
The promenade is nice, though
Last time I was this Early to A Tifo video Qatar was Still a fishing village
Capacity: 80,000,000
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Lusail - When all those years of playing Sim City finally pays off.
@4:15 80 mil stadium capacity😂😂
This sounds like a sales pitch
3:38 Did I just hear a brand new word: 'equipped-ed'?
4:09 80 million capacity lol
80mil instead if 80K capacity typo for stadium capacity…🤣🤣 the two final teams will be granted tickets for the entire population of their respective countries…
@4:08 80 million capacity!
4:08 80 Million seating capacity seems to be a bit overkill, even for WC in Qatar standards.
There was an overkill building these stadiums yes
Yep, turns out it’s a much more reasonable 80 thousand
a 5 minute expose in selling out
1:23 The 2 second Abridged version of this video
80 million seats Man thats like 80 Ultimate stages
Once the WC is over the city will be used by film producers creating apocalyptic end of the world movie scenes there
Somebody entered cheat mode on Sim City
God this makes me feel so ill
Why does this sound like something someone would make on Cities Skylines
"Indoor Skiing Dome"
Oh ffs.. In the desert? This city is gonna be a climate disaster case study.
Climate disaster, or humanity disaster case study ?
Who goes to Qatar for skiing?
@@samking5101 True... I may even be tempted to ask "Who goes to Qatar (at all) ?"
Besides people who likes sand and unreasonably high temperatures.
@@5minutemovies977 the majority of people that go there will probably be business people and i don’t think they have time to go skiing
Qatar just playing Cities Skylines IRL
How can you make a video about the Qatar world cup and how impressive the planning and building is and not mention the human rights abuses. Yet you'll do a video on Eddie Howes tactics and mention sportswashing and human rights before actually talking about the tactics. The hypocrisy is really embarrassing. I hope the brown envelope is worth it lads!
After the World Cup all this would be a waste !!
Absolute madness !!
My dad working in one of construction company and they can't be complete in coming 2years ..
80,000,000 capacity
When you say bid, do you mean bribe?
Its up for debate if Lusail was built for WC, but the looks like tifo picked up some old marketing plan and narrated the video. Doesn't match with what is there on ground.
DId he say "loose seal?"
"Yes", Tifo. We have been over this. Stop naming videos with questions that can easily be answered by a Google Search. Jesus!
Guessing this must be your first time on TH-cam
80 MILLION CAPACITY
Lusail
لوسيل
Can we talk more about the dedicated giraffe zoo?
It's perverse.
Y'all really think its gonna be 80 000 at the final?
Not sure, from what I've heard, there is nothing that you could consider "affordable" when it comes to sleeping there as a tourist. The best option may be to sleep at a local's.
Unless football associations through the world, or football players themselves, or anybody with money pays for the trip, I expect the stadium to be always somewhat empty.
B1M, is that you?
80 million capacity?
a top one
The best 0-0 ever?
sounds pretty nice, looks like a need to look into getting a place there
Yes. Yes they did.
He says 80 thousands, it shows 80 milion, just a mistake maybe. Why would you believe that? Just because is a big number?
Bad idea to host WC in Qatar. Just my humble opinion.
You think so! 🧐
It’s not just the World Cup, it’s literally EVERY sport that they’re trying to buy and host
I think it's a good idea. It opens football to the Middle East and to Muslim countries.
Obviously
@@azlankhan4172 There are better ways to go about it than that, this is kinda like the 2002 WC where Japan and Korea hosted, and it was full of controversy. So many cheating scandals and it ruined the image of football in those countries for a long time.
Qatar build this from the bloods
ALLAHU AKBAR AMEEN
Any idea how many mistreated workers died making this place? Be a useful statistic to edit in
wow! 80000000 capacity🤣🤣
was waiting for the ‘this video was paid for by the Qatari tourist board’ lol
Next time we see them in person in a video, they will be recording in a golden building, wearing golden apparel. At that point, they won't even need to say it :D
Would really like to see you guys do a video on Wales’s qualification for the World Cup, seeing as it’s our first in over 60 years
This is nothing new, Qatar have been building large parts of London for decades
gonna be an interesting wc
Middle East cities are 100 years ahead of European cities lol
"Equipted"??