 Mami, na kuha mwita wa mwita wa mwita, na kuha mwita k freeda mwita kamawa kutiawehiwa koiwehiwa kutiawehiwa kita wala kata po qtwa kodiento kumua kwa nagoza Bible, Uwika na mwaia, na kutiawehiwa, mwita kapa kakamawa kutiawehiwa kini izan Kenu kwa nga ni parametersi, ni n���arebo champion anda. Nwa na kwa maungi ya tumi ma singas senegulana? How many of them? four marches ya. Probably was already you know involved in afrikan team and how was it like? Senegulana yes. Ya, tzene gulangana, afrikan teams have watched. Ken, I'm sure you yarn for such opportunities, right? Ya, ya, obviously, you know. When you grow up watching football and seeing the stars on TV, you dream of one day going to a stadium and watching them play live. So it must have been great to be him in Mikatar as that. It's a dream for many young men growing up. And considering Katar was manageable probably going in terms of expenses and some of us didn't manage to go. Do you think it will be possible for 2026 for a more tall order? Ya, obviously it's a bit of a tall order because of the distance and maybe the, you know, the visa and everything. But you know it's never impossible, you know. Alias said it's about passion. So if you really want to do it, you'll give everything so that you do it. Talk to us about the lessons we can borrow from Katar, organising such a bigger sporting extravaganza in the war. And you know their facilities are wow. Oh yes. You know having, I mean if you look at the Middle East, the way that in everything, people think that it's not possible for Katar to have such a... Yes. People are a little bit skeptical. But I'll tell you one thing. It's a benchmark that I've set and I'm sure any other person who is trying to get World Cup into their country has to ask, there's a serious benchmark to meet. That is extraordinary. That's what the Kataris have done. And even when you look at the kilometers, I mean from the distance from one stadium to another, it's amazing. You just get into a train underground and you're to next stadium. You can watch two matches or even three depending on the speed of your walking into the metro. And one lovely thing is they have built stadiums which you can dismantle. For the first time, I think, I've taken a bill out of containers. Oh. Yeah. They're improvised. Yes, improvised. And you can dismantle it and everything. And it's so cool. It's so cool and well controlled temperatures from this fan base up to the field. And one remarkable thing and something that also good landing. The way the field is being maintained is something else. Technology involved with the body technology as you'll see on TV. That is only when you see the field level, the kind of grass they've used, the way it's being maintained. The hygiene in the stadium, it's something you just can't imagine. And the controlling of the crowd. Even when the crowds are coming in and they're going out. One amazing thing people need to know about it is the metro is free, the buses are free. As long as you have your hire card and the visa, you get through your hire card, you need to go through the embassy. It's online. You download your visa as long as you have your match ticket and hotel bookings. And you're in Qatar. So the process getting into Doha is not complicated. They are well organized. Well organized. If you ask me, I'll give them 10 out of 10. What is the distance like in terms of moving from one stadium to another? Is it like from Nairobi to Mombasa? No, no, no, no. Everything is within Nairobi. Like you're moving from Nyayao stadium to Kasaran. Maybe to Kasaran, even nearer. What? You just go under the metro and you're from Lusel. You go to Tamamu stadium, Binali, I mean education city. It's just within all those stadiums. So it is Doha best. It's Doha best. Everything. Everything. It's Doha best. In terms of infrastructure, of course Kenya has been lagging behind you. You saw yesterday's CSPOT Sababuna Mamba complaining about the substandard status of Kinoro stadium, which was supposed to host Kenya Premier League matches in Meru County. And despite the reports that the facility was complete, it was really lamenting that, you know, it doesn't match the standards that, you know, CAF and FIFA require of us to host international matches. Do you think we can borrow something from them? Benchmarking, I say it's very good. I mean, for us to build stadiums, you need to go to countries where stadiums have been built. To a certain standard. And they'll not get depleted. Like Qatar, you have each seat. Just what we see in Kasarani, the seats are just for individual. We don't have concreted seats. And the reason is that because we want to know who is seat on that seat. The ticket owner. If there's anything, a crime, we know exactly, seat number 56. The ticket was bought by so and so, and he's the one who's sitting there. There's a reason why the seats are numbered. There's a reason why the seats are put in a way that when the seats come in, there's no, like, a rush. There was no rush in Qatar. And one day we'll have a stadium, I mean, spectators up to 40,000. And people will just move out. No rush, no nothing. And to build such structures, they'll help you professionally to grow. Because you don't have structures, it means you don't have facilities for your youth to come in and enjoy those facilities. And it's not very expensive. It's just about doing the right things. That's something the Qataris did. They did the right thing. Ken, I'm sure you've got so many questions for Ali considering you're a footballer and it's a footballing tournament happening in Qatar. Ya, you know, I'd ask before the tournament, there was a lot of talk about how Qatar is perceived as a country. It's an Islam country and they are not willing to bend their rules for anyone. So I'd ask from experience, maybe with the fans, with the stakeholders, was all that talk before the tournament really there? Ya know, it's always good to express yourself. I mean, we are living in a democratic world, so everybody is expressing themselves about Qatar and all these other things. But once they went into the country and we went into the country and saw the experience, it's amazing. Qatar unveiled the kanzu, it has flags for different countries, the traditional. People are amazed with that, the reception. And everybody will meet in one place, I think it's called Sukwakif, where all the fans are meeting there. So the hype starts from there and now they move out to the stadium and they come back again. No issues of security, no issues of fights and everything. No, I mean, they did a good job. I'm telling you that it's an amazing job. And another thing is, why if I was free? I mean, internet free and once you get in, you can get your orido card and everything. For three days you have free WhatsApp, I mean, you can chat with your friends and you have free of charge. That's something that is very attractive. It tells you how receptive they are. And a lot of learnings for us here, I mean, to bring it back home and see what you've learnt from them. Beside that noise of Qatar being an Islamic country and the lifestyle associated with the nation that is hosting the tournament, there was also noise of a ban of sale of alcohol around the stadium and how Gian Infantino was being condemned and he received huge criticism from some quotas over that particular development. Was that, you know, in some way affect the magnitude of the tournament? I always believe, I say, each house has its own rule. If you come to my house, I have to respect your rules. I think that's what they are trying to say. This is our house, these are our rules, you see. And people have to accept and respect their rules. I mean, that's what happens. If we went to South Africa, the South Africans say we rosella. And people made noise, but that's what they wanted. That was the rule, who waslla is something that they are inactive. So, yeah, that's how it is. If there are house rules, then house rules have been made. But the most important thing, the core is the tournament. How is it? Now everybody is now excited. They are forgotten about their house rules. Everybody is focused on the knockouts and how amazing this world cup has come in terms of tension and not sure, like yesterday, if Urugu is going to go out, I mean, we thought maybe they are going to be saved by the Portuguese aside by defeating Korea. But now that tension, that passion, that's what has created this Qatar to be one of the most successful world cup tournaments. And Ken, you know football is supposed to bring all of us together regardless of religion, regardless of race, regardless of tribe like in Kenya, regardless of gender. And we've witnessed what happens in Africa especially. And more so in Kenya, you know, when teams get to lock horns against each other, FC Leipards and Guruma, when they are playing in Mashemeji, Derby, there is not that aspect of sportsmanship and you know, some outcome result into chaos. I'm sure that is something contrary to whatever that you witnessed in Qatar when teams are playing against each other, even fans get to hug each other. You know, the beauty feel about it, it's after the match. You have to go into the metro with the same fans, the same opponents. So that's a beautiful part. And everybody works together, you know, the way they've controlled the crowd on exiting, it's unique. And as you're working out, there's some activities, different kind of country dances, traditional dances, you know, something to entice, something to make you happy. So even if you are defeated, then you go, you see there's a stop and you see, you know, even Kenyans, Kenyan dancers were there, you know. Then you go, you find some Turkish dancers from different countries and all of you go into one metro and everybody's putting a different jazzy of their beloved country that they're supporting. And people congratulate each other and have fun. It's unique, yeah, it's unique actually. I think if I'm to ask, it's about the stadium because the one that was built in the container, stadium 974, and it's going to be taken apart. I think that is something that can be done here in Kenya because it has happened, it's a great architectural thing and Kenya can try to implement it. But do you think currently with the people involved in, especially football, do you think that they are far off that or is it something that we can expect it happening soon? You know football is visionary. It's about putting structures and having professional people to take it to a different level. And not to claim in Australia, most of the countries in Africa, once you don't have structures, then development football becomes an uphill task. It's a challenge. And the structures should combine with the law, the law of the country because today, I mean we have a lot of youth, maybe over 50 or 60% of our population is youth-based. If we don't have structures for this youth, what are we giving birth tomorrow? I usually tell people is structures are the key, is a key pillar to success. I also had Waaziri saying the same thing, keep on echoing machinani, machinani, machinani. What does machinani means? Machinani means if that young talent should have a facility so that the talent can be seen. World Cup made all scouts globally fly into Qatar to see what talent, but that is only matured talent. That's a mature market. The World Cup is a mature market. It's an epic of football. You see, I know this guy plays for Liverpool or for Manceta or from Paris in Jermaine, but I think we need to negotiate. I want him to transfer from this team to this. But that is already immature. In market, you say that's a key account market. That's a K4 or something. When you go, you have everything already cooked. What about this other market? And that's what Qatar did. They have an academy. That team you see is from an academy. They played together over four, five years. Maybe luck didn't fall by their side, but it's a team when the coach has built. Now for us to be successful, we have to go to the grass roots. We have to put those structures. If a scout is coming to this country and they want to scout on under 17, where will you go today? Under 15, where will you go? Under 23. So if there's a structure, I know exactly if I want players under 15, there's a league already going on, I will go to that league. We have academies which have very good intentions in this country. But these academies, they can go that far and actually market themselves. But if there's a pipeline from those academies into those structures, then we can actually move as a country, as footballers. We have a lot of talent in this country. More talent than what you can imagine. But our talent, there's no light beaming our talent. Our talent is in darkness. Kenyans have always been optimistic that with the increment of teams taking part in World Cup, our country can possibly make it and qualify. But now that the tournament is happening, of course getting represented by five African countries, Kenya excluded. Most Kenyans are there, just like you indicated earlier, they are watching the games. How is the experience from Kenyans watching our combatriots from Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Kamerun, Morocco, Tunisia taking on the rest of the world in now absence? You know, Mark, we Kenyans, we are not to be a spectator nation. We are a performing nation, especially when we come to sports. But we're sailing us. We are a performing nation. All those things that are played there, we've played against them and we have some very good results. We've played against them, we have some very good results. We've played against Ghana, we've played against Kamerun, we've played against Morocco. I mean, we've been having very good results and they know Kenya is a tough place, you just can't come and pick points. But now, being a performing nation, how do we go back to our profession? I said again, I'll go back to my place. Structures have to be placed. Structures, transparency, those are the key things. Once you put those kind of structures in place, they will actually grow. Then put professional to run those structures. People will understand. Football is a huge employment. You've seen in Qatar, how many people are employed because of football? A tournament over a month, you can imagine. So that tournament is for a year, for us here. So the same kind of employment, we can actually get it back here at home. We can employ the same people. And if you look at the numbers, if you actually put numbers in place, you see the kind of employment you can get out of football only, not even other sports. So for us to go back into performing lessons, we have to put structures in place. Proper structures and facilities. Ken, I'm sure at your age, you haven't watched most World Cup tournaments. Besides this one of Qatar and the 2018 in Russia, and probably 2014. And like Aliwa has watched, many of them followed by myself. What is your comparison, compare and contrast the ongoing tournament and the previous ones that you've managed to catch a glimpse? I think this group stage, phase number one is better than Russia and Brazil 2014 because of all the drama that we've witnessed, especially in the final games of the group stages. Things were changing in a trice. You are leaving, you are not leaving. So I think it's better than that. And also I think the quality of football for the African teams and also the team like Saudi Arabia, Japan has really, really improved. For them to get wins, for example, Japan to beat Spain and Germany, that's really great. Maybe they wouldn't have done it in 2014-2018, but you see this time, they played with a certain desire that the other teams didn't have. And for the African teams, Cameroon beat in Brazil, even though they went out, that's a really, really immense result. Ghana 3-2 versus Portugal, really, really big results for African nations. Belgium getting hammered by Morocco. No one saw that happening. So in terms of quality, all around the African teams and even the Asian teams, there's been a big, big improvement. Critical points to have mentioned because I remember I was catching an action between like yesterday Uruguay and Ghana, despite the result Uruguay having beaten black stars of Ghana, they thought probably they would qualify, but there was a game that was concurrently happening and it was supposed to determine the fate of the qualification to the last team. Of course, that game beating, it was... Portugal and South Korea. Portugal and South Korea and quite an upset South Korea beating Portugal and now thwarting the efforts of Uruguay qualifying and the same thing happened drama, of course. You remember, it was France against Tunisia and Tunisia beating the holders and I think that makes the beauty of our game, right? Ya. You know, as I said, when the whistle is blown to start the match, people have predictions. Even before that I said, this team is going to win because they base a prediction on historical successes of the particular team and also they base on the prediction on the leagues that these teams are playing, very competitive leagues. EAPL, Syria Air, La Liga, they are playing very commonly but what they are forgetting is these other teams, the Moroccans, the Tunisians, the Senegalese, the Ghana, the Cameroonians, go back and see what they have done into their countries. There are some structures. The Asian football has changed. You remember, there were days that you were saying ah, Asian football used to be beaten 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. It has changed because put have realized for us to have a proper team, they start from the basics. So they building the basics. Today if you go to Saudi Arabia, they have very good youth structures. 30 years, 20 years, you won't see that but today youth structures are there. You go to Japan, the same thing. That's why if a Japanese player is now going to play professional football, you never used to see that. Senegal, look at Senegal, they have very good youth structures. And Asian football, I can actually recommend them, they have, I can recommend them, they have run to a certain level that they have showed how professional, how good they are in the field. The Japanese, they play with passion, discipline, consistency and focus. They never got tired. They never gave up. The Koreans did the same thing. The Moroccans did the same thing. Tunisia did the same thing because they know, if you guys are playing 4-4-2, we go to a 5-4-2 system, a 5-4-1 system. And this is how we are going to beat you. They started the game. And all this is managed by one thing, technology. Technology. In today's football, if you don't embark on technology, you are still on manual and guessing power, then it will happen. You seen, I mean, the last goal that was scored by Japan on the other day, that went against Spain. Against Spain, yeah. See, it was counted in. Technology now plays a vital role. Outside role. That is technology. So we should ask ourselves, our Kenyans, if there is a level of technology, we locally, where are we right now? Are we doing the right things? Are we doing the wrong things? Where do we need to fix locally now? Because Kenya is a big economy. Kenya is quite a big economy if you compare to a few African countries. And technology is very advanced. If you go to the FinTech world, we are very much advanced. But now technology in sports, that is a key factor that is ailing our soka in this country. We don't have technologies. We don't have, I mean, today, I've seen, you've seen people, when they ruin the justice, this black thing like a brother putting in here. You know what's that? That thing is a gadget that tells you, attracts the player, endurance, kilometers covered, and everything, position and all that. So that data is being filled back to the analysis. So then the team sits down and tells the coach, we agreed on this system, but this player was actually getting out of the system all the time. Or they give them instant information. So unlike before, you have to wait and go back and sit down, which that is a stage we are. Things have changed. Things have changed. And we are still dormant. We need to make what we call a frog leap into technology and how to manage our teams. And we will only be successful if now certain have local coaches sending them outside. You see, and young millennials to go and learn about football analytics. It will help us grow very fast. So that you don't make a substitute by guessing on the technique and say that guy is tired, no. There is a target. It is supposed to have 7 kms. There is a problem. What do we do? So all those substitutions that are being made, they are being made out of informed decisions. And you have mentioned about a very critical point of substitution. And I think that some extent has costed African teams playing at the work up. You remember when Ghana was taking on Portugal and the subs he was making. I think the team was very well and on the value of winning that much. But the moment some player was removed I don't know whether it's kudos then things changed. You know, sometimes the coach have seen that yes, I need to substitute. But when you do it in between a goal and you bring a new team, you know, but they form back their formation and they have played again. It takes quite a bit. 5, 3 up to 7 minutes to settle down as a substitute. So those are technical errors that the coach has made but I think the coach knew exactly what he was doing. Maybe unfortunately the system did not work. So coaches do make substitution because they know that this substitution is going to bring we've seen other subs coming in and their fruits being made out of the subs. I think I totally agree with Ali on the technology and science in sports for example if you look at the bench of advanced countries everyone even the doctors are on comms stand by this no shouting, there's no calling they just speak into it and that's it and also from the data that's collected on the tracker itself it could have helped some countries make better decisions because you can't just judge a player because he's not running fast enough for something. So you have to use the data and if you look at where we are right now and where they are they can have data in by half time on how 45 minutes has gone it's processed in 2-3 minutes and the coach knows even why is your heart beating faster today they have all that so for us it's to trend incorporate that we don't have to really go all out but we have to start slow a little bit of it gradual because our football is coming off a burn and everything but ideas we should really try to implement from just this world cup and talking about our football coming off a burn Ali, what do you make of the lifting of the suspension by FIFA, the communication that came from Zurich very good news to me it was very good news everybody wanted that and I think everybody, each Kenyan wanted to see the FIFA burn being lifted and the lift of FIFA burn now we go back to our brain books what lessons are we learning because this is not the first FIFA burn which is being lifted what are the lessons are we learning why should we go all the time into that direction unless we know the why and now we come to the how then we will not go back to the same direction you see one thing I would say when there's a FIFA burn usually people sit probably brings people together and say we've been burn what are the reasons and unfortunately to say is once you hide, once you say you go blindly and say no because so and so is there, so and so is here so it's okay for us to be burn that's what killing football in this country transparency I should have the guts to tell you Maxwell you're wrong we should do this thing the right way you see once you have that kind of approach to our football then we will grow but as long as we are partisanism if we need something wrong we don't want to talk about it that kills football that kills football in this country and that's what has been killing football in this country but we put structures and those structures are transparent and everybody is accountable like what they see us was saying the other day you have to be transparent you have to be accountable about what you are doing and they should professionalism all the way once we put those assids we will grow I was telling Ken I think that interim suspension to some extent probably it ought to have been positive in this guys for Kenyan football so that we use that window to put a house in order and rectify things because yes we are very grateful to Jan Infantinium FIFA lifting the suspension but what next because understand is there any active football qualification that Kenya is supposed to go through maybe for Kenyan clubs to play in Kav Champions League and Kav Confederation so we ought also to have used that opportunity of wanting outside world football activities to there is something that I learnt in Qatar all those teams at Wanda they went with the allegiance all the teams that participated in Qatar and even those with allegiance and the allegiance are more also involved with the teams they are mentors they are brand ambassadors once you respect your allegiance because they have been in the field they have delivered many of them I mean it is the legionary part of it they come and talk to the teams they give them opportunity and they have outside activities you see clinics there are a lot of football clinics in Qatar some of the players who are active were also going into advance you see like for example Neymar Neymar is advertising a local telko oredo and most of those legions were brand ambassadors for FIFA itself they were brand ambassadors itself and that is what we say Crème de la Crème in a tournament when you see somebody who has won 5 or 4 World Cups appearing there it's an attraction it's marketing of FIFA in itself so here we need to have a structure whereby our legions are involved in terms of putting this kind of structure and I'll give an example somebody is playing in a national team I'll give you a name somebody is disciplineing him you can see it Bobby the same thing JJ and many more even the young generation Kinauliechi Mariga who have come in these guys can bring in a lot in terms of this is sports structure youth academy if you have a brand ambassador who is at up country for example like George Fondi used to talk about discipline in football success in football and when the millennia of the kids look at him and say who is this guy this is what is done and I remember telling people unless now we'll have what we call a football museum it's very key to have a football museum so that even our kids even our young sports people footballers can go into this museum and see the success of Kenyan football Kenyan has a lot of successes but we're not talking about it so having that connection and that there'll be a lot of wisdom exchanged but we have to a proper institution to see into all that when you go to machinani today if you're at home and now December is coming a lot of football tournaments coming in we like to see only an under 15 tournament you see you've gone there you've seen you take a picture or video or coach I said when I was at home I saw this boy look at this video now it's very easy to capture talent you have your phone just capture it and send it back but success will not come until there are structures and I'm telling you we can see a million years but if there's no structures and transparency and accountability then these are shortcuts shortcuts are very expensive to success I think Ken what is also ailing because our administrators and managers have failed to address the welfare of a key person in this game with a player and the backs stops with administrators failing to look at the grievances of an athlete and that's what Ababuna Mamba was saying while he was having a joint conference media press with Kenyarabu union and paid dues and allowances of shuja players who are supposed to travel to Dubai for all seven series I think the administration is really failing the players because if you look at where we are right now and where the more advanced countries are it's a really a lot of steps backwards number one the place is the most important thing is the one who is being seen on the TV is the one who is playing for the country the representation they are really fighting they are the ones you see in tears when things don't go well if we look at Kenya right now when we go to tournaments sometimes the players don't even have the tickets they sleep in hotels and you find that the leadership of a team is already there they are waiting for the players who are going to play who are in an airport somewhere and even if you look at the Europeans even if the players are asked to bring the significant others not themselves but the FA can for example ask England players what they want the significant others there so we are really way way behind I think some of the people in the administration they lack their selfish that's the feeling I get their selfish they want they take too much care of themselves they don't want to sacrifice sometimes to have this player and go give us your all and as we wind up on that particular note the call by CS sport Sababu Namamba saying that he will crack the whip on air and federation it is something you support I have a saying, burn the bush when you burn the bush it's a snake it's an elephant so what the CS is doing is the right thing burn the bush clear it up completely then put your pillars say this is governance if you are not compliant we are not talking you see sports act is key we can't jump it you can't ignore it because that sports act will come and protect the player you are talking about it has audit inside it has integrity it has everything the other thing the sad story is about players in all this noise we had we had people going apart from players themselves say this is our player they cry that you hear that this is our player it doesn't have a medical cover players themselves no insurance but players collect money and actually say let's help me I mean a legion group here most things are not echoed but if they have to be echoed in that legion group and see how many players that their own players ex players have actually been collecting money to go and help their own and you don't see officials coming in you don't see officials coming in and as he said when you look at the tears outside did you see the officials crying apart from the fans and the players not only this because the players are passion to do and your revenue streams is out of those players if you don't have players there is no football so I agree with Waziri sports compliance it's very very key accountability is very critical transparency is very key and once he burns the bush and put everything in order with transparency things are going to work out very well and players contract is key we will echo it I always echo it the contract the players should be inducted of how to read write, sign a contract with our clubs then now to our clubs is time our clubs put the arts together we need youth in our clubs that is very very important because that's how you're going to channel structure the clubs are doing very well but they need to actually up their game a bit so you have a team in KPL they have a youth team and they have a women team that's how you know I mean we're going to develop football you saw a women referee World Cup I mean isn't that a milestone big milestone but you have women referees do you know they are being paid equally having paid equally so give opportunities also to women football it will grow we have very good talent whether it is to be given an opportunity wow gentlemen it's been an honor having you on board and talking about World Cup experience with Dali Amur was in Qatar for the better part of the tournament during the group stage a few live matches especially those involving African teams we've seen now the pairing for the Laskstein and the games today of course beating Argentina against Australia then United States of America playing who? Netherlands and we will be seeking to continue enjoying the action Dali Amur you are parting short your final words are you going for the final? yeah actually yes the opportunity is almost coming through and would be there God willing if everything goes on well would be at the finals my parting short my parting short is we have now another opportunity Abana has been lifted unless we come all together and put those structures and give CS an opportunity because what he needs is an opportunity and support so that he can deliver what he really meant to deliver once we are given is given that support of which I'm sure he has it and he will deliver let's respect governance let's be accountable let's forget our differences and put them aside and say this is for but the benefit of Kenya that flag the national anthem when you hear this national anthem and you look at Senegalese or Ghana or Moroccan see that national anthem the passion in it it's something else and I remember in an interview one of the footballers a legend I think it was a Spanish or something I can't remember the country you were saying World Cup is when the national anthem is being sung and you know you are here chosen by your country to represent them in a world some monumental feeling I usually call World Cup are you and sports you see they are you and me now sports World Cup is part of it it's how the people beat so if you work hard together and if we start building a national team today in four years and as per the CS words we are going to be in World Cup you see and once we get into a coach that coach should be permanently with that team just like Alice you see permanently we give him chance even if he loses for the four years or three years but let that coach have that one team and gear to it then channels of ensuring the scouts are coming in to pick a good talent and export them outside we have the talent because we don't have structures thank you thank you Ali Amur for coming through and sharing your insights with what you learnt in Qatar during your few days stay in Doha for the FIFA World Cup and I am going to the 22nd edition for the tournament currently and we are entering the last 16 of course don't go away stay tuned we are coming back with discussion regarding the last 16 pairing and how that pan out we are enjoying the interesting moments of FIFA World Cup in Qatar