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Pramod Acharya is a freelance contributor to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

November 15, 2022

We spoke to the workers who built Qatar's World Cup dreamSocioeconomic Inclusion
Students playing football at the Pookkottur government higher secondary school ground in Malappuram, India, August 29, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gokul

Ali Aksar is rooting for Argentina to win the upcoming football World Cup in Qatar - a tournament he will be watching on a big community screen set up near his home in southern India.

After a stint driving hundreds of workers back and forth from stadium construction sites in Qatar's capital Doha, Aksar returned home empty handed.

No souvenirs, no gifts, and most crucially - no savings.

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