Basingstoke’s MiniTec made dugout shelters used for Qatar World Cup
England may or may not be going to the final of this year’s World Cup in Qatar, but the country will be represented there regardless thanks to MiniTec’s dugout shelters.
MiniTec first created dugout shelters for Basingstoke Town Football Club’s Camrose ground in 2006, decorating them with the club’s distinctive blue and gold colour scheme.
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When the organisers of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup in Qatar needed new shelters, it was MiniTec they turned to, with a team flying out the middle-eastern nation to fit five shelters in the tournament’s stadiums in Doha and Al Rayyan.
Gary Livingstone, MiniTec’s managing director, told the Basingstoke Gazette of his surprise when he spotted those same dugouts repurposed for the 2022 World Cup.
He said: “The people who worked for MiniTech at the time got in touch to say they had seen them. We spent two weeks out there putting them in. I didn’t know they still existed. We noticed they were at the World Cup after all these years.”
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