Arash Masoodi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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Hey there.
Yeah, fundamentally, FIFA is a not-for-profit.
It will create a new entity in which it will put all of the things it commercializes, think meteorites, tickets, into a single entity.
And it will sell a 20% stake in that entity to financial investors.
That money raised from the financial investors, which would equate to $4.2 billion, would then be distributed in equal $20 million payments to the 211 member associations of FIFA.
some of which may have been starved of investment to allow them to invest in football.
And then that will allow a sort of ripple effect of better football from these parts of the world, which will in turn make the overall pie of what FIFA produces and puts on every four years more valuable.
That has triggered a lot of people who say what you're actually doing is selling the soul of the game.
It's a not-for-profit.
The people play for the spirit of their national teams.
And when you turn it into just another financial product, like most things are these days in life, it totally takes away the spirit of the game and the soul of the game is being sold.
Well, so JP Morgan was brought into this project and they've been secretly working on it for months.
And if they are to be believed, they are very busy.
The phones are ringing off the hook and many people want to get in on this deal.
Now, there is a bit of a plot twist here, which is that now there are threats emerging that essentially all European countries will withdraw from the World Cup.
which would significantly impair the product that is put on every four years.
And if you're an investor in this deal, I assume you probably want this to be the biggest and baddest competition.
And if it splinters, you're investing in a completely different product to what you just watched on your screens for the last few months.
I mean, JP Morgan and others who are on the deal.
So we had an on the record interview with Greg Mathais, who is the former CEO of Liberty Media on Thursday.
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