Joey Durso

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568 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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And football is everywhere and always a game of the city.

It was spread by trams and trains inside cities.

It was initially a child of the weekend.

The first workers to get weekends in industrial England were the people who played organized football first, the Saturday 3 p.m.

slot.

France industrialized later, so it did not have that same culture.

And there are pockets of it, you know, St.

Etienne, an industrial town in the south of France.

But really, France was not a big football country deep into the, even 1998.

And then that changed overnight.

But still, even now, you know, you go to a small French city and it's just not...

a thing that people talk about in a way that it is in England and in Spain and Italy.

So FIFA is a vehicle for funneling money from advertisers and TV to member associations.

There are 200 and something member associations that make up FIFA.

They vote for the president.

Jenny Infantino.

The World Cup is this huge bonanza of cash, both in terms of ticketing as this multi-billion dollar thing is completely new.

I mean, I'm sure you've heard a lot about ticket prices and lots of Europeans are up in outrage about that.

Americans say that's just, you know, capitalism, baby, or whatever.

But like, it's like two, three billion dollars now, which is completely new.

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