Joey Durso
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Odd Lots · How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever · 25 Jun 2026
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And then three years later, there'll be no logo because it's literally just like some guy, there's no process, there's no marketing department, there's no anything.
So I suppose football, FIFA was leaving millions, billions of pounds on the table.
Of course, there is a flip side that if you ruthlessly commercialize it to within an inch of its life, you're potentially risking harming the product itself.
But that's maybe a separate podcast.
Yeah, and they were like $20 million deals.
And this
Yeah, so this guy, Ann Rothenberg, who was the guy running the bid, and he came from an MBA background, and he was very...
commercially minded and he turned it into this big commercial event i think very effectively but yeah the sponsors are you know like the ones we see now like coca-cola like visa these huge multinational corporations that the world cup just hadn't really seen in the same extent before and american companies which is what we see now
Well, I think the two biggest things are A, your team winning or doing really well, and B, being in your 20s.
Like most things in life, you look back on it.
And I suppose lots of people who look back on 1990 who are in positions of power at the moment, and that's wonderful.
For me, 2018 in England, we're in Russia, and England did surprisingly well after being dreadful for 20 years.
And the sun shone every day for three months.
And it was just a party in England, which was fun.
So I think a lot of it is that social cultural stuff.
But
on the broader sense, exciting games, close games.
But moments and people, you look back to Diego Maradona.
Do you know about the Hand of God in 1986?
Yeah, beautiful.
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