The UAE and especially Dubai were thrusting capitalist Western facing places where dreams happened. And Qatar was this kind of very quiet place that was undergoing a kind of cultural revolution, but a political revolution as well. They just brought in Al Jazeera, censorship had been banned effectively. One of these big plans was to get the national team to qualify for a World Cup, which it never had done.

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