Adam Crafton

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Football Daily · UEFA Threatens Full FIFA Boycott Over World Cup Sale Plans · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't think he attended the Club World Cup final last year as well, possibly.

Maybe also the World Cup draw in December.

So this is very long-standing hostility.

Well, I think the African Confederation has said that they will go away and look at the idea.

But I think what we're seeing here is an individual at the top of FIFA who has been allowed to basically get away with pushing the envelope for the last few years, really without any substantial opposition.

You know, the only one that was previously pushed back on strongly was the idea to make the World Cup every two years.

But, you know, if you were to just go through a roll call of some of what he's been able to get away with, you know, the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar,

which is now largely forgotten about, sadly.

the intervention by President Trump on the Balogun decision, on a far less important level, you know, hydration breaks, the Peace Prize.

So much of this was done without consultation of many of the people that we're speaking about now on FIFA councils and executives and committees.

So when somebody's been able to get away with so much for so long, I think they start to feel invincible.

And we should remember that, you know, I think there were reports that

Well over 100 of the member associations have already sent in their letters saying they're going to support Gianni for another term when that comes around next year, including some of those European federations.

So it can't be a surprise that he now feels untouchable.

Hey Laura, it's Adam here.

I just wanted to ask, we've seen over the past few years this pattern of

FIFA executive and I guess really the FIFA president doing many things that I think European football executives have been uncomfortable about but haven't always vocalized publicly whether that's The ticket prices that we saw this summer whether it was the Peace Prize last summer whether it so many so many things What why is this thing?

the breaking point.

What is it about this particularly that has gone one step further?

And actually, is the FIFA president's position tenable to you after this?

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