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

I don't care if I lose my job over this.

He's not yet lost his job over this, but it's hard to imagine how he could possibly continue if Infantino is president.

But that just gives you a sense of the level of alienation.

When your own advisor and your COO

are coming out publicly to stab you in the front.

This isn't behind the scenes or anything like that.

That is stabbing you right in the front.

It was basically, how do we extricate ourselves from this while keeping Gianni in a job?

That was the level it had got to.

You sort of, what had happened, you had UEFA threaten a boycott, you'd have CONCACAF reject it.

And FIFA had doubled down on it in the early hours of Friday morning, only for the Asian Confederation to immediately come out and reject it.

And, you know, he was hoping that that would be the end of it.

And it's not, because Saturday morning, UEFA came out, basically said he's not fit for purpose.

CONCACAF then come out, call through a reckoning for the presidency.

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.

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