Joey Durso

relationships and money now what is it i think um so world cups have always been very political of course you had qatar and russia very recently but you also had mussolini's italy in 1934 so the idea of world cups being political isn't something new i think what is new is basically this idea that the country and the leader of the country is bigger than the world cup um which i think trump kind of is or feels he is um the world cup doesn't have to in qatar they were sort of bending to the institution that was the world cup whereas now i think it's almost the other way around

The other thing that's different is they're not welcoming the world.

Russia and Qatar, for the many, many, many sins of those two countries and those two World Cups, they fundamentally wanted everyone to come and have a good time.

And in Russia, there was surprisingly little crime and problems and people had a good time.

In Qatar, again, like, you know, there wasn't trouble.

People were able to go and alcohol was banned, but fundamentally it was welcoming.

And the USA isn't.

And all these countries are banned.

And I was in Senegal very recently and I spoke to fans there who can't go.

And they went to Russia and they went to Qatar.

They can't go to the USA.

They can't get a visa.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I saw a good stat that was Infantino, the president of FIFA, the sort of somewhat sinister cartoon villain president of FIFA... Who gave Trump the gold statue.

Who gave Trump the gold statue, the FIFA Peace Prize, said that the US is 3% of the football economy, of the GDP of football.

The US is 25% of the GDP of the world economy, so... Yeah.

In FIFA terms, they think, look at all that catching up to do.

We can make so much money here because, I mean, I was just in New York and it's kind of getting big there.

The Arsenal stuff was big there.

You know, on the sort of liberal types, people that go on holiday to Europe, it's kind of been growing with those people for a while.