Adam Crafton
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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
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Are we saying that they're
they've not enabled this at all for the last few years.
It's taken this thing where it's literally got to the point of Infantino has sold out so much that he's literally selling a piece of the World Cup that was the red line, when there probably should have been a red line four or five years ago, to be honest, over kind of even more kind of ethically important issues.
You know, the Saudis were given a kind of World Cup 2034.
They had to do, because one of the consequences of the Qatar World Cup was that they would do a human rights assessment for future World Cups.
And FIFA got a global kind of law firm consultancy, Clifford Chance, in their Saudi practice to do an assessment of Saudi human rights.
It came back, medium assessment.
a medium assessment of human rights, which begs the question of where on earth would be high, right?
And, you know, but that, just kind of, you know, a couple of news stories, a few people talk about it for a week, breeze on.
The Confederation Vice President has nothing to say.
And no, that's not kind of a British, European, American resident, whatever you want to call me, sort of talking down to the Gulf states or anything like that.
That is simply an observation of the way that these people who work within FIFA behave.
what they have been prepared to tolerate over the last few years, the elasticity that they've been prepared to tolerate.
So don't be surprised at some point if you give someone so many inches that they then try and take a mile away from you as well.
Yeah, I think that feels like kind of the easiest way to describe what's happened because never has someone been in a position so strong and squandered so much political capital so quickly.
and it may only get worse really from here.
But let's see.
Thanks as always.
Yeah, would've I think it would have interrupted the athletics end of tournament football match that was taking place that Saturday morning.
Yeah, he wanted to announce it at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on the Saturday before the World Cup final, the day before.
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