Herc Gomez

I'm not defending FIFA, but we love to see FIFA as the entity, the big bad wolf.

Brazil had its host of problems as well, and there were government officials taking money...

to use it on things that they didn't really need you know south south africa the same deal russia you've already mentioned we can go here and and trust me we're all part of this circus and and and it feels we know we are yeah if you it feels like the everyday individuals are one missing out it feels like if you have means you'll just discard it as capitalism and nothing matters um but it does it does leave a sour taste in your mouth when when

the game you grew up playing isn't the game you're seeing today but there's a reason that these prices are going around 1994 is still to date the most successful men's world cup in the history of the game over three and a half million people turned up at the gate they're projecting anywhere between six and seven million this go around yeah you mentioned qatar and all the problems in qatar

If we do a ranking of the best World Cups on the field, Qatar is going to be up there.

It really would.

It would be up there.

The final is probably the best final we've ever witnessed.

And I agree with you.

I think in spite of everything that we've experienced about Qatar, we've experienced about some of these countries, it went off at the World Cup.

as best as they could have imagined, I think.

And again, I'm not defending.

It just feels like no matter what we do, this could just be said in vain.

I don't think I've been to a FanFest.

I'm trying to think, Russia?

Did not do the FanFest.

And Qatar, while they were FanFest, just didn't feel like a FanFest.

I don't know what your experience was like in Qatar, but the areas that our studios were in or around, it felt like unless it was a

the game day, there wasn't that environment, if that makes sense.

Yeah, so I couldn't tell you what it would take and what they're missing when it comes to a FanFest.