“I HAD David Beckham in the car a few weeks ago,” says our guide Manu, as we buzz past Qatar’s Lusail stadium.
“To be honest I am not a big football fan, so we talked about our families instead.”
This quietly spoken IT engineer has a job for the next few weeks chaperoning the stars of the beautiful game around Doha in a fleet of Hyundai Ioniq 5s.
Spilling the beans on his celebrity clientele would not go down well so he discreetly refuses to spill Beckham’s beans.
We agree Lusail is an impressive stadium, but our favourite is the one close to Doha airport, through which 1.2million fans will pass over the next a month and a half.
The stadium we like most is 974, a structure made from 973 shipping containers. The 974th sits out front as a gate guardian.
2020 Hyundai IONIQ (Image: Hyundai)
From 974 to Lusail is 18 miles. The furthest any two of the eight stadia are apart is 25 miles. It is the most compact World Cup ever.
Qatar, the UK’s second-largest supplier of natural gas, is still wedded to gas-guzzling V8s
The immaculate streets of Doha are populated with Toyota Land Cruisers, V8 Land Rover Defenders and giant Chevy Escalades made popular by Hollywood’s red-carpet brigade.
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