Adam Crafton
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3,906 appearances
28 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
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He had this book given to Federation executives in their bedrooms as a gift.
So the the FIFA Bible was they were sleeping next to it.
I think he'll be surprised by the speed and pub and how public it was, for sure.
I mean, he definitely wouldn't have started the week expecting it to end like that.
However, you know, if people like us know knew before that these people aren't that keen on Gianni, I'm pretty sure that Gianni should know that they aren't that keen on Gianni.
But Gianni's also in as Matt says, a very kind of
A bubble, really, his own little bubble.
You know, during the World Cup, the amount of times people said to me, sort of look who he's traveling with.
It is not FIFA staff, it's not FIFA management, it is ex players, it's designated FIFA legends.
I mean, we even reported in that piece that there's been times where he has sent former players, FIFA legends, as his envoys to meetings with major financial
financial institutions.
We're talking about some of the biggest some of the biggest guys on Wall Street taking meetings with former players and and kind of blinded by fame a little bit or non-fame in some of the cases of the players that were that were being sent.
But but that just give kind of gives it gives a sense of a a sense of you know where where he has started to land.
And I think, you know, someone like
I think I mean so someone like Kevin Lemoore is is a v is a very interesting guy because he was at UEFA, previously moved over to FIFA a year and a half ago.
He didn't love it at UEFA.
That's that's something we should remember in all of this.
That, you know, I th I think it's very easy, and maybe this is a bit of devil's advocate, is the binary idea, good, everyone else, Gianni, bad.
There there are shades of grey in the goodness and badness of of global football.
Even within UEFA, there was huge pushback when Sheffin attempted to to to to uh alter some statutes a couple of years ago as well.
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