Adam Crafton

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · How FIFA Tried (and Failed) to Sell the Soul of Football · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

So we shouldn't pretend here that Europe hasn't sold out

in many ways, at certain points, whether it's to US private equity, whether it's to, as we say, leverage takeovers, whether it's to sovereign wealth funds.

This isn't a question.

And I think this is something that media sometimes allows it to become.

It becomes good v. evil.

And actually, I think in this case, it is almost very bad against quite bad, right?

And, you know, or highly flawed against very flawed.

Those are the grades that we're looking at here.

But what FIFA have done is they've kind of...

they've just taken it that step further.

You know, they've taken it in the same way as the Super League took it one step further.

And I think when it comes to kind of FIFA and the World Cup, I think it's just the idea, like it's almost just the tackiness, really.

UEFA has used this kind of threat of boycott before when Infantino tried to make the World Cup an every two-year competition rather than every four-year competition.

And it's a very powerful threat because many of the most recent past winners, if you go back nine, ten competitions,

have been from Europe and they have most of the best players.

A lot of the value of the competition is derived from the European nations, European fans, European players.

Not all, not to be entitled, but that's just reality, right?

You've got Mbappe, Bellingham, all those great players.

The kind of secondary layer to this is, I don't think you can underestimate, it's not just the content of the plan, it's the how.

It's the fact, Infantino didn't tell anyone, right?

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