Dan Sheldon

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The Athletic FC Podcast · FIFA, Trump and Balogun: The scandal that shook the World Cup · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

There's bound to be many more things that will kind of

crop up over those over those years so at the moment i would say it is his defining legacy um purely because of the work that kind of as adam's already alluded to went into placating the the u.s administration right that the the kind of always being in the oval office the you know moving the world cup draw to washington when it was supposed to be in vegas it's all these little things that you kind of saw and you thought well if they get the perfect world cup

It would be fine.

They could move on from it and Johnny would have been seen to like kind of been the Trump handler.

But now that Trump has got involved and there's the kind of brutal lesson of politics, right?

I mean, this guy is owning that.

They're going to own it.

I mean, in the same way you're seeing in the UK.

where number 10, I think, briefed that, you know, we are involved in ensuring that the game against Mexico wasn't brought forward.

That's just because football is popular, right?

So they want to latch onto that.

And if the US administration can say, you know, we were key to this decision, they think that's going to be like a big thing and everyone's going to, you know, applaud them in the US.

So I think to kind of bring it back to Gianni, yeah, I mean, at the moment, I think it's certainly going to be the defining moment of the World Cup.

For me, I think that's how I view it.

Whether it be his defining legacy, I'm not too sure because he's going to be around until at least 2032.

And for him, is he safe?

Yeah, I think UEFA put out a statement, right?

But Gianni makes these federations so much money.

Just look at the money they're going to be making from this World Cup.

It's astronomical.

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