Name: Underground Dog Fighting in Afghanistan (Part 1/3)
Uploaded: 2014-05-14T06:21:38.000Z
Duration: 6 min 55 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

GELAREH KIAZAND: So here, we're at the dog fights.

GELAREH KIAZAND: He's saying, it's wrong, it is bad.

Whatever people may think, I love it, and I'm going to do

GELAREH KIAZAND: When you think of gambling, you think

And when you think of Afghanistan, you think of its

reputation for corruption, its never-ending

But in spite of all this, the men of Kabul have found refuge

in a world of quail fighting parlors and dusty

We're going to explore this culture of illicit gambling

and see how the men of Kabul thrive in a realm of sport

We just got a phone call saying that there might be a

So we're on our way there now, and hopefully we can see the

Buzkashi is the national sport of Afghanistan.

It's a lot like polo, but instead of a ball, they play

The sport is legal, but all the side betting that the

And since Afghanistan's vice president, Marshal Mohammed

Fahim, was hosting the game at his estate, it was a bit

GELAREH KIAZAND: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

GELAREH KIAZAND: All right, so we got in, and then we got

And with Fahim, they're not going to be allowing just

Kabul is the center of this gambling world.

But since betting is illegal, reputation is very important.

It was unlikely that they were going to allow an Iranian

So we had to find some one people trusted, an old-timer--

He's an 80-year-old man who, back in the days, they called

him The Gangster, because of all the fights

He's a very, very hard man to get a hold of.

ABDUL SAMAD DARDAR: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

GELAREH KIAZAND: So he was just angry that I didn't know

It's away from all the craze of the city.

They're very strict on the people they let in.

During the Talib times, obviously this place was

GELAREH KIAZAND: The Taliban banned the sport, largely

because the fights were community-driven and brought a

wide spectrum of influential men together that could form

So head of the circle is sitting there with the white

I'm trying to get people to put more birds out or fight a

Everyone here pretty much has a bird with them.

They sell them behind here in case you don't have one.

GELAREH KIAZAND: So what they're doing right now is,

they go around and they start comparing the different quails

Subtitles ListPlay Video

Underground Dog Fighting in Afghanistan (Part 1/3)

bet

language

call

reputation