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

That's one of the downsides of South America for Gianni is there's not that many countries.

There's a lot of land mass, but not that many votes.

And they're the ones who are really keen on it.

So they get more of a hosting rights in 2030.

So I think that does make it harder.

There's a lot of things that it would make harder for him.

And I think it would make...

Even if he was re-elected, I think it would make him a real lame duck, to be honest.

As a president, I'm not really sure what he'd be able to get through because anything that he attempts to get through that's his own idea, I think would really struggle now.

Is that sinking sensation optimism?

Well, never be too optimistic until you know who the next one is.

That's what I'd say, right?

You know, there's a lot of...

People who, until this week, have quietly enabled this, right?

Yes.

You know, for the past, well, 10 years pretty much.

Think of all the things that have gone on at FIFA over the last 10 years.

The treatment of migrant workers in Qatar, the Balogun affair, the Peace Prize, the kind of slightly ridiculous Club World Cup expansion.

Saudi Arabia, the way that it was kind of rigged so that the Saudis would be the sole bidder for 2034.

So are we going to now have one of these vice presidents from one of these confederations who have largely sat there, taken $300,000 a year as a salary, occasionally had a bit of a whinge publicly to make themselves look good, or because they genuinely believe it in some cases.

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