Adam Crafton

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3,592 appearances 27 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 17 Sep

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

I don't know if they'd have gone for it, but they may have been more predisposed towards it.

UEFA were never going to go for it.

Some of CONCACAF might have gone for it.

We've seen Mexico come out with a slightly different statement to what the overall CONCACAF statement was.

And for some of these federations, it's a lot of money.

And of course, they wouldn't be doing their job to their members, actually, to not think about it and to have a conversation about it.

But by keeping it as secret as he did and then losing control of the messaging, I mean, he was actually meant to announce it the day before the World Cup final.

That was when it was meant to be announced.

But for some reason, either he or the Kushner side wanted to do a bit more work on it and it got pushed back.

And the way I'm told, Gianni kept sort of slightly gossiping about it with his rich friends.

And that widened the web of people who knew about it.

And that then led, you know, obviously to it leaking.

So it was kind of his own hubris that has kind of caused this possible downfall.

I think what it gives you a sense of is, I think he does view himself as a king, to be blunt.

You know, you look at the way that he travels via private jet, which I think was secured via Qatar Airways FIFA sponsorship for the president to use, the security escorts that he got throughout police motorcades.

And the fact he doesn't really do press conferences.

He did one at the start of the tournament.

He does about one every four years these days.

He doesn't take questions.

He doesn't take questions from us.

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