How Qatar Built A World Cup Team From Nothing

[@lucaslonchampt613]

Holy mackerel, Alfie used a video instead of still images to illustrate his point! History has been made!

[@oliverqueen5883]

When!?!?

[@lucaslonchampt613]

@@oliverqueen5883 At the very start

[@tombo416]

First time ever

[@kieronparr3403]

I had an audible gasp

[@EliBrigante]

@@kieronparr3403 he’s so good at this he might’ve even did that on purpose. because i didn’t gasp but i went “wtf” when i saw the video, just like how people reacted to Sepp Fatter pulling the Qatar card out🤣

[@jasonnchuleft894]

Having just finished watching the lifeless showing of Qatar at the opening game of the world cup I must say this video already aged like fine wine.

[@RustediMac]

came to say this!

[@crimson.snowden_]

Lmao, more like it aged like fridge milk.

[@saintpepsi8602]

@@crimson.snowden_ don't you mean out of fridge milk?

[@PrinceOfCats5]

Can't wait for the Antarctic version of this in a decade or so and Steve McFreeze's immense influence on Antarctic football being recognised

[@williamferguson8543]

All the money being invested by penguins to bring world class football to Antarctica will pay dividends before long

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

*internationally recognized. Alfie used to make glowing comments on McFreeze's style of play and precision, but even today, he is still one of the only people who covered Antarctica's first division.

[@whosaidthat84]

Fun fact: Steve Freeze is one of two players to win the Ballon Platinum, which is only awarded to the best player on the Multiverse. The other winner? SCOTT FUCKIN STERLING!!!

[@thomas_delaney]

That’s a throwback😂

[@drillnewsandclips3798]

whoa

[@Knightwolf__]

Alfie and Tifo have been making content on similar topics and i still keep learning more and more. This just goes to show just how deep this whole situation goes.

[@danpreston564]

The difference being that Tifo's content was written by an expert.

[@Mickolob]

@@danpreston564 and it shows … Tifo’s videos on this World Cup have been much better

[@danpreston564]

@@Mickolob Tifo is always better.

[@Steveck072]

Tito’s production values are much better - Cause you know money - but I think Alfie’s writing content is just as good (if not quite as detailed) and I’m a huge fan of the “cool hands and warm embrace” of TIFO (just like I’m a huge fan of Alfie).

[@bababababababa6124]

@@danpreston564 you guys are forgetting that Tifo is a company whilst Alfie runs this channel largely on his own and writes his own scripts. Obviously Tifos content is going to be better, you idiots are comparing a company to one guy 😂😂

[@WBGT007]

As a fan of Japanese football, let me tell you Alfie, that game against Japan in 2019 was fixed! Very controversial win indeed.

[@matthewhernandez8342]

I am not surprised to hear that.

[@m15velvet]

Bro is so salty

[@whiteboyplayssoccer]

It was so fun to watch Ecuador dominate them

[@connorupton4200]

Alfie your coverage of Qatar and this World Cup has been top tier and some of the best around.

[@TimTim-rr2hh]

yet he says he hates the Qatar world cup and it should not be happening and all that noise, he should put his money where his mouth is and not do ANY videos on the world cup wether it be politics or football.....

[@luqmanalatas8418]

@@TimTim-rr2hh hey, there's also money to be made with hating qatar WC. Essentially he's like david beckham making a profit out the qatar WC, just from a different point of view 🤣

[@TimTim-rr2hh]

@@luqmanalatas8418 exactly, he is essentially profiting from the horror also, just no where near as much as the Qataries will.

[@machinainc5812]

They looked like a pub team today. Surprised they only lost 2-0. Can't believe this Qatar team are Asian Champions. Even i thought they would be much better.

[@mabm4310]

If you bribe your way to victory then you don’t need to be good to win. That’s how they won the Asian cup.

[@Phantom-ez4zv]

They looked better in asian cup, kind of like greece winning euro in 2004, the dominating teams in asia are japan korea and saudi arabia australia, normal winners.

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

Day 77 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

[@Nawaf-qk9mu]

Hey Alfie. Great video as always! Thank you for the final message of the video. As a Saudi, I always get a lot of hate online for the stuff my government do... of which I have 0 control over. The message is very important to hear for people and I don't think it's stated enough. So once again, thank you!

[@benhaney9629]

I certainly don’t hold you entirely responsible for your government but “0 percent...”? Can’t agree with you there. Your government gets away with what it does because a majority of people agree with them and those that don’t go along. I mean poll the citizenry of day Saudi Arabia on how they feel about homosexual rights. Or woman’s rights. This is not a case of an enlightened citizenry being railroaded by a tiny evil minority. You have a cultural problem in the Middle East far more than a government problem.

[@Nawaf-qk9mu]

@@benhaney9629 My government gets away with what it does because it provides a very strong and very dependable welfare and social security system. In that they get support and people simply abstain from any politics because A: They are being well provided for and B: Their opinions are irrelevant anyway, at least on the individual scale, and they'd much rather live in an imperfect but generally well oiled system than start up some civil war. As for women's rights and homophobia for example, those are two separate issues so I'll address them individually. As for women's rights, a vast majority of women here live comfortable family decent lives by western standards, if not better in many cases. True, sexual harassment is unfortunately an issue as it is in many places in the world, but contrary to what you may read in whatever newspaper you frequent, it's very culturally condemned and very heavily punished. Men can get jailed for verbal harassment of women. Men have, I know guys in school personally who thought they were hot shit, tried flirting with girls, insisted even though they were uncomfortable and was detained for it. As for say their legal right, certainly in the past they had a few limits on them and in some cases can lead to a system that men can exploit over women. But at least from the cultural point of view (as I'm talking for my people, not the govermnet), those rules were all more regarded as obligations a man must fulfill for his wife than tools he uses to control her. By that I mean, if your wife said she wanted to travel with her friends, (at least culturally/socially) it's not regarded as "She needs permission from you", but instead as "You must do these legal paperwork for her". If say the husband refuses, the wife can very easily complain to the mother of her husband about it, and he would be very strongly condemned. These are all stiff I've seen first hand and regularly heard about before it was no longer needed. Equally there are many rules that benefit women (both legally and socially enforced, but more socially than legally). For example, in the case of divorce, unless the women specifically decides to move back in with her family (in Arabian culture, living with your family even in adulthood is normal and encouraged), she is supposed to be the one to take the house. Also, child support is completely in the hands of the man, and he must even pay for the wife (the logic behind, u must also support the mother of uour children, even if she is no longer your wife). So while some laws may benefit men, in the majority of cases, either the invidiuals doesn't exploit it, or the overall social environment the individual is in (especially from tbe mother) doesn't tolerate the exploitaction and quickly pressures them away from it. As for homophobia, this case is much simpler. Yeah, people are quite homophobic, especially the older generation. But for most people, it's a sentiment of "I think its a sin, but it's not my business what others do", at least besides the much older population. There's few very publicly known gay and trans people (people wjo are themselves within the arab/saudi community). People don't like them, true, but no one cares. At least the majority. A "let them be" sort or attitude. Rules are strict, but enforcement is generally very lax. I attended a gay-themed birthday party that was thrown in one of the biggest/most popular malls in the capital city. Nothing happened to any of us. It's still an issue indeed, but it's a much smaller one than the impression you are given. This is coming from a bisexual person. The stuff you tend to hear about exist, very much so. Religious extremism exists, but is very frowned upon even internally, so much so that I can honestly wholeheartedly say one of the most celebrated advancements in the last 10 years wasn't the women's legal rights, or even the tourism stuff, but the disbandment of the religious police. It has been so long since then and to this day people are always thankful and talk about how so much better the outdoor social life is without them terrorizing the streets. Undeniably many rules and government activity is questionable, but most of the people themselves (say, 90%) are some of the most hospitable people you'll ever meet, and not some rabid barbarians who are contempt with a society where their daughters and sisters are beaten and abused. No father I know will allow his daughter to be beaten, no brother I know will not beat a man half to death if he knew that man laid a hand on his sister, and I certainly need not explain how people would always protect their mothers. Please do not mistake the extreme and nitpicked news you hear about us for our common day to day lives and views. I realise you don't necessarily mean any hatred or offense towards us by your reply, I simply found it an opportunity to hopefully shine a light upon how the real normal world looks for us. If you read all of this, thank you. Please remember to always regard the social world outside the west with the same complexity you do within, as it always is very much the case! I hope you have a great day.

[@benjamindillard2391]

Fan from America here. You make farrrrr and awaayyy the best football documentaries, Alfie.

[@beirut1019]

It's also interesting how wales was also ranked 111 at the time:) This would be interesting to discuss

[@benlane7282]

Thought the same! Mass improvement there

[@kcvfr400]

Excatly, Cymru was capable of investing in its youth and creating a different atmosphere via leadership started by Gary Speed to create somthing unique that my son sees as the norm. Any international team can with the right investment and support, but amazing when Qatar has a population the same as Cardiff.

[@PEGGLORE]

Ask Alexa what 111 is in Welsh. It's well funny.

[@Whatthescallop1776]

Canada was pretty low too

[@daarom3472]

Simple reason: Bale and (to a way lesser extent) Aaron Ramsey. Without Bale they'd still be 80-90 at best.

[@petersiska9928]

It needs to be mentioned that those 2 clubs from Slovakia were non-league clubs, so they basically won 3 and 2-0 against amateurs

[@9teen9Dee]

Loving the content mate . Much love from America . And for shining light on the whole Qatar world cup . Feels so strange and forced for a world cup

[@Hanging_Chad]

This team is without a doubt a record-breaking team and will go down in history as the first host nation to lose its opening match, failing to register a shot on target.

[@drkintobor2597]

I know it was fucking hilarious wasn't it? They were atrocious.

[@stephenduke412]

When they make a movie about George Floyd Yall think JUSSIE SMOLLETT Should audition for the role After he's served his full jail sentence of course. Perhaps he should be put on the same wing as R KELLY..... BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!

[@Just_shush_now]

@@stephenduke412 wrong comment section… lmao

[@tomislavplaysguitar]

Goddammit, If a country as small as qatar can host the world cup, then Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia should do so as well for the sake of it. Also your coverage of the Qatari World cup has been phenomenal. Keep it up!

[@glennfernandes1543]

Oil money bro not by hardwork

[@phightinphil25]

The problem for the Balkans is that they have a mediocre reputation from those who make such decisions and lack the resources or controllability of say the UAE or Qatar (oil). I personally think some sort of bid for a major sporting event in the Balkans could be interesting but the general troubles with cooperation between states in the region makes it harder to achieve, and I dont think a single Nation like Serbia has any chance at all. Its sort of like imagining a Luxemburg world cup just with better footballing, less money to update/build the stadiums and theoretically more controversy.

[@tomislavplaysguitar]

@@phightinphil25 yeah, I guess you're right. For now the balkans can't host the world cup. And even probably for the next few decades.

[@ch772a]

Let Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland host a World Cup with us!

[@garymaidman625]

The country hosting a World Cup finals should be a developing football nation, which is why, despite the claims of corruption, is the very reason why they should host the World Cup finals.

[@ordetschmordet9227]

I was delighted to hear the score of today's match. Hopefully Senegal and Netherlands can do even better and stuff them 4-0.

[@JaRa911]

Wow Qatar is embarrassingly bad at football no defense no offense. Just chased Ecuador around for 100 minutes. That was crazy. I still watched all of it lol

[@iceman4660]

Excellent work again. I'm intrigued with your connection with 'my beloved Reggae Boyz'

[@aryamanmani4025]

I'm genuinely stunned FIFA have gone from Sepp Blatter to Infantino. It's like going from Hitler to Mussolini.

[@tumppuman]

I would say it's the other way around. Infantino is worse than Blatter.

[@aryamanmani4025]

@@tumppuman trash vs garbage at this point.

[@wetzinalvarado6930]

Blatter was an evil boomer, infantino is his own kind of evil person

[@chriswoodtoarsenal]

this team just got humiliated by Ecuador, and I'm all for it!

[@matthewhernandez8342]

Me too! I hope Netherlands beat them 4-0 next.

[@serbiti64]

11:10 - Me being from CD. Juárez: "Hey.... I recognize that mountain!!!... I've seen it before!!" 😅🤣

[@oliverqueen5883]

We still beat them 4-0 and we didn’t even qualify for the playoffs 😂

[@TheKalaxis]

The population thing is insane. If Alfie's numbers are correct (and I have no doubt they are) then that means my hometown of Middlesbrough has a bigger population (391,000) than Qatar, if you only count the 313,000 Qatari natives 😳

[@andrewharrison7912]

M8 the population of Qatar is 2.931 million not 200 thousand

[@yeetingat100subs9]

@@andrewharrison7912 but 90% of their population are immigrant workers and not ehtnically qatari.

[@muslimcel4581]

Qatar and Iceland have the same amount of people

[@bababababababa6124]

@@andrewharrison7912 bro he meant just the ethnic Qataris if you could read properly you’d know that 😂

[@jepulis6674]

@@muslimcel4581 Iceland counts women too

[@swapankar2190]

When a national team jumps suddenly from FIFA rank 113 to 50 it can never be neglected /ignored . This indicates so many good attempts from the part of that country and which is highly appreciable .

[@Iron-Bridge]

Nice. But they're getting spanked by Ecuador in the opener right now. 😄

[@originaltallman28]

You’re on fire with these world cup videos over the last couple weeks.

[@TimTim-rr2hh]

he likes to talk shit about the world cup and how its wrong and corrupt and shit but that wont stop him making money from covering it

[@billyjepson313]

thank you for making this type of content

[@wiellie6718]

Awesome video mate, thank you. More journalism than all those so called 'journalists' in the Netherlands. Keep up the good work!!!!!

[@MrSdsc81]

They build them from nothing... and after the initial match, we can see they have nothing XD

[@matthewhernandez8342]

No they did make progress. If this match was played 10 years ago Ecuador would’ve won 6-0 xD

[@MrSdsc81]

@@matthewhernandez8342 fair point

[@starwah3481]

Alfie, can you talk about those big name players (like Guardiola or Xavi)who played the Qatar league, and how did they do in Qatar

[@rafadinhoforlahm]

more like "How Qatar Built A World Cup Team Into Nothing" 🇪🇨

[@stevenm5997]

I never thought Corpus Christi of all places would be mentioned in a HITC Sevens video

[@alexx5948]

i hate hearing about corpus christi cuz it reminds of my ex cuz her name was christi but swear could never get away from that name to the point i hear in a hitc sevens video 😭

[@stationkidd]

Neither would I ever thought Lexington would be mentioned as well

[@welshed]

It sounds like they do have more of a football heritage than I thought. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of dodgy things surrounding Qatari football. But their national team might be genuinely able to cause an upset or two, based on ability alone.

[@nikolasavic9275]

They're wack

[@welshed]

@@nikolasavic9275 yeah turns out they are 😆

[@TylerSolvestri]

They left the stadium half empty before the half time. Yeah, they definitely have the same football heritage of Manchester United. They pay for an entrance, and then they leave after getting their expectations exposed to reality.

[@mabm4310]

Haha give over. They are crap and always will be. Spending money on things isn’t football heritage. They have zero football heritage. They have a tiny country. 90% of Qatar’s population is migrant workers. They don’t strike me as very athletic people in the slightest, entitled people never are. They live in a dessert and football is a sport played on grass. So yeah spending money on that will never make them good at football no matter how much they spend.

[@joselopez1892]

I ain’t saying Qatar going to kill it or anything but as an Mexican American I saw what there capable of in the gold cup

[@brrrrrtenjoyer]

Capable of 0-2 within 35 minutes of the game yes

[@wetzinalvarado6930]

The gold cup is a f*cking joke

[@_12346.]

“How Qatar built a World Cup team from nothing” They’re still nothing unfortunately. This World Cup could get ugly for the hosts

[@erikthehalfabee6234]

I was afraid the project was successful and that they would progress to the next round. I'm happy to be proven wrong.

[@TheMisterEpic]

Great video, very interesting to see how planned this was for so many years by Qatar

[@Evemeister12]

I look forward to qatar receiving lots of favourable penalty decisions in their group games...

[@bababababababa6124]

Qatar will unfortunately qualify for the Ro16 I fear

[@gmcizzy0345]

I look forward how english fans will cry like little girls 😂

[@zeusadolphus1638]

The first Ecuadorian goal was ruled for "offside" 😂

[@andrewdilworth9180]

The first host team ever to loose the opening game

[@jinz0]

all that just to get slapped and embarrassed in the first game 🤣

[@stationkidd]

Coming from someone who’s from Lexington, I didn’t expect the city to be mentioned in a football video 😂

[@dvdv8197]

This was a huge success. 👍👏

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Wales and Iceland didn't do too bad since 2010 either

[@garymaidman625]

They haven't won any tournaments though. Qatar did.

[@benlane7282]

@@garymaidman625 Bit harder to win the euros when you're up against Germany, Spain, France Italy, Belgium, England etc than the Asian cup mate. So not really sure what your point is. All those teams have done well since then, rising up the rankings

[@garymaidman625]

@@benlane7282 true, but when they won the tournament, they weren't even in the top 4 sides, maybe not even in the top 6, yet they beat Japan, arguably the strongest Asian side, 3-1 in the final.

[@benlane7282]

@@garymaidman625 yeah pretty impressive for sure! And shows they have some bottle. But actually Wales are above Japan in the world rankings and I have no doubt they’d also be able to give them a strong game and potentially win, so I’d say their skill level is comparable

[@garymaidman625]

@@benlane7282 it's easier for European countries to be higher, being they play more games. Belgium are number two, they are not the second best nation in the world.

[@tomast1323]

Cool video, thx. 👍🏻

[@DFranco23]

Alfie how did you ever hear about Corpus Christi lol 😂

[@williambendele364]

South out to Corpus Christi, TX y'all made it onto HITC Sevens

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

Qatar building a team. Flier: Attention fellow citizens, we need to assemble a world winning soccer team. We will pay you all more than everyone in the world, we will also need you to guarantee you win. If you don’t win, we cannot guarantee your safety.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

I get that the Qatari government do some terrible things but its hardly North Korea. The football players are already held up as national heroes for winning the Asian Cup, Even if they lose all three games and get knocked out of the group stages that won't change,

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

@@areebsiddiqui758 “the Qatari government do some terrible things but it’s hardly North Korea.” Way to raise the bar there.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer I'm referring to your suggestion that the safety of the Qatari football players would be at risk if they performed poorly at the world cup. There was a popular rumour about how North Korea would send their football players to labour camps if they performed poorly at the football world cup. That was of course false.

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

If anything, most Qatari citizens are even less responsible for their government's action than most of us, purely because of its government less democratic rule.

[@areebsiddiqui758]

Absolutely correct. If anything those over in the west should be criticised even more so for voting the likes of Trump, Biden and Boris into power. Italy literally just elected a fascist. In non first world countries that are supposedly democracies we have the likes of Bolsonaro and Modi. But of course, they're liberal democracies, the saviours of humanity that we have no right to criticise. The idea of majoritarianism is so scary and convoluted when you think about it but we hold up the likes of Aristotle as heroes for giving us democracy, its a joke.

[@garymaidman625]

@@areebsiddiqui758 and of course the democracy that the Ancient Greeks had wasn't how we consider democracy to be now.

[@bababababababa6124]

Nobody hates ethnic Qataris or their team, we hate their autocratic extremist government they have no say in

[@JoDyMa]

DAY 29: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️

[@MyselfTheThird]

When you get time after this cup you ought to consider a video on the Philadelphia Union's rise in MLS. A bunch of really cool little stories involving the intersection of sport and politics, a banger academy system, and Reggae Boyz keeper Andre Blake. You really can't go wrong.

[@vesaversion298]

I love this video. Thanks for the info. I didn't know, nor was interested in this team, now I am intrigued.

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

0-2 before 35 mins to Equador Qatar vs equador 0-2 within 30 min. Qatar literally sucks their defense are no good enough they literally passed the ball to an equadorian player.

[@legolandfamily5068]

Here after the first match. Wow They were horrible. 😳 they will not score one goal in the next two games

[@BALHAM69]

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

[@shanemcgaley8322]

And the club was almost moved to Dublin.

[@BALHAM69]

@@shanemcgaley8322 it would be a interesting documentary We shall see if Qatar can win today too

[@lastking269]

Great video as always

[@staticshockk]

I like how finally someone is talking about how these royal families are put in charge and have their position protected by the likes of America and UK.

[@ethanbleemel9485]

love the lexington ky shoutout

[@barneyjames1126]

Great video Alfie.

[@l9ino170]

They bought the frienldies, I remember South Africa (my home country) was also not performing well before the tournament but going into the tournament they had racked up some impressive wins. We didn't make it out of the group despite beating France

[@andrewedwards1315]

Wait deh. Wah Alfie know bout Jamaica 🇯🇲? Never knew he was connected, mad ting. Great video though 🙌🏾

[@ronaldofowler8863]

Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@drillnewsandclips3798]

1:50 WHAT'S THE BEST SHOP IN WAKEY?

[@spidermelon4753]

UAE vs Qatar h2h from 2002-2019 UAE wins - 5 draws - 2 Qatar wins - 0 UAE 11 - 4 Qatar (aggregate score) UAE vs Qatar h2h since 2019 Qatar wins - 3 draws - 0 UAE wins - 0 Qatar 13 - 2 UAE The difference between Qatari players and naturalized players

[@phoenix5054]

Maybe the US should take note. They should astroturf their 2026 team from Latin America.

[@ecoRfan]

@@phoenix5054 that, Africa, Caribbean…

[@mabm4310]

Well laid out.

[@8thst774]

I bet they thought they would beat Ecuador lol

[@DJMavis]

What on earth happened for their youth team to get to the final, and what happened after that they did nothing with such a pedigree?

[@inlimboed91]

11:04 Good video, but maybe update your stock globe image to one that isn't from the late 1940s

[@noelthen898]

Now Qatar national football team has confirmed to be the first team eliminated from this year's World Cup despite being the host nation after defeats to Ecuador and Senegal, maybe Alfie can make a video on what is going wrong with them in this World Cup campaign? Of course the three opponents in the group are strong but there might be other factors that contribute to their shambolic performance? Side note, Qatari domestic league was halted for months prior to this tournament and the national players only played several friendlies.

[@BukbleyGames]

Dang my town Lexington got a shout out! Bigger than Qatar where’s our World Cup?

[@Kevin-p7e9t]

Qatar doing a FIFA Club & County Road to Glory rebuild irl, with the added patch of getting to reassign nationality.

[@TheStringBreaker]

*Your content is phenomenal! I’m glad people like you are exposing the truth!*

[@AlteredState1123]

Withering sarcasm. I love it.

[@sanlouci]

who's here after they just got outplayed by ecuador?

[@hiphopdagame]

0:46.. Dang, Keeper got on a Nike Kit while the Outfielders got on Adidas Kits... daheck??

[@Denzel332]

Who is here after Qatar lost their first match at the world cup

[@vauxvids]

Almost a 3 minute goal lol

[@azhurelpigeon]

All of that to lose all of their games 😐

[@aryanpugilist]

To be honest, although I'm not arguing if Qatar is the worst of the lot, it feels strange that people have seemingly forgotten that there were several "controversies" in Russia 2018, France 2016, Brazil 2014 AND South Africa 2010...Media swept so much of it under the rug though, but you can still find videos about the state of these tournaments and how bad the locals were treated.

[@abasudoh7459]

Top tier video.

[@laurencec09]

It will be very interesting to see if the Qatar team continues to develop through the years, i'd imagine their talent pool will grow a lot given that they're building whole new cities so the population can grow.

[@noaharthur9041]

they can if they continue expanding the Aspire academy world wide.

[@mabm4310]

No it won’t. They live in a dessert. You need grass to play football. And their population is way too small. About the size of Middlesbrough. They aren’t a country that is known for playing football. And they only really have football teams because of this money whore of a World Cup.

[@laurencec09]

@@mabm4310 I mean I do agree that it's only due to money, but that's the point. They'll keep pumping the money in over the years to diversify their economy away from oil, there's no reason they couldn't turn their entire country into a megacity and force the issue. Money talks these days

[@mabm4310]

@@laurencec09 but the population of Qatari nationals will still be too small to make a good football team. Plus geography on the planet is a thing. They don’t live somewhere where football can be played properly. It’s way too hot. The other extreme is Antarctica wanting a World Cup. Barely, if any people born there and not geographically relevant for sport. One is too hot. One is too cold. They just have to accept it. And they don’t. Which is where the obscene amounts of money and bribes and sports washing comes in.

[@TimTim-rr2hh]

thats not how population works dude

[@apjsard1]

I still hope Ecuador win

[@jackbwoy]

Hey Alfie ... I need to hear your real thoughts on the Reggae Boys ... So do a feature on them next.

[@Chambo1990]

How about a last dance 11

[@bigfish3846]

Also just so you know in the U.S the most accurate way to measure city population is by urban area so Qatars citizen population is closer South Bend Indiana or Lubbock Texas than to Lexington

[@LongHaulGamingHD1]

4:01 I knew those slimeball circles and rectangles were behind this

[@lilbitthott]

Current team is not hungry like the team from gold cup n South American cup

[@bardshitler3328]

Pep guadiola absolutely loves oil money 😂😂😂

[@zaimhazmin8851]

i just noticed podolski reincarnation!! this dark podolski will definitely have that killer net tearing left foot better than in his previous life

[@williamcross210]

only if he is playing for Koln

[@AnonCooler]

just watched them get kicked out in the first match, satisfaction

[@rodycaz8984]

We just destroyed these clowns hahaha!!!!! Greetings from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

[@matthewhernandez8342]

Congratulations mi primo! Time to grill some cui to celebrate 🇩🇴❤🇪🇨

[@ErmIDK19]

todays the day it literally all kicks off , i cant wait

[@louielouie95]

What On Earth Is Going On At FCSB?

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 415) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

[@danpreston564]

Just think of how easy it would have been to spend some time on google and making your own list. Would have taken less than 415 days.

[@zubatterrorincarnate3206]

@@danpreston564 just think of how that would never be the same as a list made by Alfie. Not even close.

[@danpreston564]

@@zubatterrorincarnate3206 and? An arbitrary list is an arbitrary list, whoever makes it.

[@joefagan352]

FIFA are the ones who should receive the most criticism for this disgrace!

[@griffinbrown8493]

so happy ecuador beat them hahah

[@davissae]

They didn’t build much judging from their thrashing by Ecuador

[@김복현-z3d]

🌹🇰🇷대한민국🇰🇷🌹월드컵 축구 대표팀! 조은 결과 있기를 기원합니다!👍👍👍🇰🇷🇰🇷

[@lucaslonchampt613]

카타르에서 모두 행운을 빕니다 (sorry for the broken Korean)

[@lllordllloyd]

Lucas Neil at 8:20?

[@jaybeejb5329]

Nice video. But they're going out in the group stage with one point maximum.

[@andredavidkilian4607]

Since they're winning the wc host bid by bribery, why do you think they'll treat the game fairly?

[@jaybeejb5329]

@@andredavidkilian4607 there's only very little anyone could do to help a crap team. The gap is just too much .

[@jaybeejb5329]

@@andredavidkilian4607 that's probably where they get the 1 point. 🤣

[@andredavidkilian4607]

@@jaybeejb5329 I hope so.

[@stevemcelmy9354]

Where are they getting 1 point from out of Ecuador, Holland and Senegal?

[@louielouie95]

We Need A Story About The Tennis Loving Crazy Gang Football Club "Wimbledon FC"

[@jcdova29]

They need to send their top ten youth prospects to Barcelona’s La Macia academy for a couple years.