Gary Lineker

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Pod Save America · Can Soccer Save the World? · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

It's too late.

By the time you're 20, there will be, you know, there's always examples that will prove that wrong, but not that many.

So I think the whole, I think you really need to have a good think and a proper planning in terms of not just wait for a World Cup and then hope it goes well, but build a long-term future.

Look 10, 20, 30 years ahead because it is realistically going to take that long for you to challenge.

I've been hoping for that for a long time.

I find it quite depressing, particularly the cases you talked about.

I was in the room when Qatar and Russia were given the World Cup.

I didn't have a particular problem with Russia.

It's a big footballing nation.

They'd never hosted it.

And I don't really have a problem with it being in the Middle East and Qatar either, but what hurt, what made it feel dirty was it was so obvious that the bids were corrupt.

And it was latterly proved to be the case that a lot of them took backhanders for their votes.

So I remember thinking this is just truly awful for our game.

And then obviously,

It changed.

Infantino came in.

I met him.

He's a nice guy.

I've spent time with him.

And I was hopeful.

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