Adam Crafton
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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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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.
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.
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