FIFA Club World Cup preview: What to expect from Qatar as Reds chase first world title

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup getting underway in December, Ian Doyle has been out to Doha in Qatar on a fact-finding mission to find out all about the venue, what Jurgen Klopp and the side should expect to see, and what the travelling Reds should fans expect over there. Ian checks in with former Liverpool midfielder Jason McAteer before speaking to the head of the Qatar Club World Cup organising committee, Dr. Saud Abdul-Aziz; Abdul-Ghani, the inventor of the a fully air-conditioned stadium design Liverpool will play in at Education City; Mohamed Ahmed, the project manager of the Al Bayt Stadium, and Bruno Marinho of O Globo, with the Reds possibly facing Flamengo in the final. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a special edition of the Liverpool Blood Red Podcast.
0:13.2	I'm Ian Doyle, the chief of Liverpool writer.
0:15.2	A bit different this podcast.
0:17.1	Basically, you may know I've been out in Qatar looking ahead for the Club World
0:20.9	Cup.
0:21.9	It was invited over there by the Supreme Committee who are the
0:24.7	organised of the Club World Cup which has been used for rehearsal for the World Cup in
0:28.2	2022 which is a big deal over there in Qatar. It wasn't just us where the echo was joined by journalists from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico,
0:34.7	Russia, China, India, England and further afield to take part and a tour of various facilities.
0:39.7	And in this podcast you'll hear from the man who invented the stadium cooling technology,
0:44.0	which Liverpool will experience in December, one of the project managers at the stadium,
0:48.0	and a Brazilian journalist who has explained why Flamango are desperate to play the Reds in the Club World Cup.
0:52.8	There's also an interview with the head of the Qatar Club World Cup
0:55.8	Organising Committee who's got a surprise revelation about Liverpool and you'll also
0:59.5	hear about when I visited one of the dozens of labor accommodation camps around the country
1:04.0	which housed most of the near 2 million immigrant workers of which thousands have been
1:08.0	working on building the new stadium for the World Cup and the Club World Cup.
1:11.8	Before we headed out though we spoke to
1:13.2	former Liverpool start, Jason Macatier, who's been a regular visitor to
1:16.7	guitar for a number of years to gain a better idea of the region.
1:19.6	What's the feeling like in the country at the prospect of Liverpool going over there and actually playing?
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