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

There have been some federations who have come out and backed Gianni, who have basically said, you know, look, you've made a mistake.

Thank you for correcting the mistake.

Now, you know, we still believe in you.

I mean, the ones who have come out for him, Qatar...

who obviously has got a very close relationship with Qatar, going back to the 22 World Cup, even lived there for a little bit and was very defensive of Qatar players.

in and amongst all the workers' abuses that took place there.

And also Morocco, who are a co-host of 2030 and desperate to get the final for 2030.

So maybe that loyalty could be rewarded.

I think that's going to be really interesting to see which confederations are a unified bloc, which splinter...

FIFA politics is really simple.

It's a numbers game.

It's 211 nations.

You need the numbers.

And Gianni, I think, will only resign if he feels he's lost the numbers.

If he feels he's in with a fighting chance, I can imagine he will attempt to fight on.

And then it's a case of who has the guts to fight it.

I think it makes it really hard if he stays in power for it to go to 64 teams.

I think the likelihood of 64 teams is now greatly diminished due to the events of the past week because UEFA and CONCACAF are already opposed to that.

If he then tries to push that through, do you want to go and start another war?

Or do you have a little mini war with CONMEBOL, the South Americans, which have about 11 members?

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