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Astead Herndon

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843 total appearances

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Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

I brought this.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

And now I'm here to deliver this.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

So he is the son of Italian immigrants in Switzerland.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

As a child, they called him Piccolo, the little one.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

And he actually, he's got this kind of quite interesting multicultural background.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

As a child, you know, he's spoken about being pretty poorly and needing a blood transfusion.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

He was kept alive by blood from donors from England and also from Belgrade.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

So what's now Serbia, former Yugoslavia.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

And then he has this kind of story of emerging as a soccer bureaucrat.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

So he was originally in the legal department at the European Confederation, which is called UEFA.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

There's the different confederations around the world.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

And he was there, and he was one of the beneficiaries of kind of the collapse of FIFA in 2015, 2016, because this space emerged where he was able to

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

kind of deliver himself to be kind of like a changemaker.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

Yeah, well, their relationship was born out of the bid.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

So the bid during Trump's first presidency, Infantino kind of got himself into the Oval Office a couple of times.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

That was how it started.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

But what actually happened was, whereas...

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

A lot of people obviously turned on Trump kind of towards the end of his first presidency and certainly after January the 6th.

Today, Explained
Trump’s World Cup

Infantino didn't.