Matthew Scianitti

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700 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Aug

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OverDrive · OverDrive - August 28, 2026 - Hour 1 - Matthew Scianitti/Rex Hoggard · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

Johnny Infantito was not all powerful.

And he and he's certainly learned that in uh i i in world soccer and if he hasn't learned it when the Congress comes together near the end of this year and they're looking to pick candidates, believe me, there will be candidates ready to take his job.

Maybe, you know, certainly Victor Montagliani from East Vancouver, his name has been tossed out.

But Alexander Seffrin is the ultimate power broker because Europe

irrespective of of world football is still the ultimate power power center in world football.

Yeah, I I mean

Money talks.

I mean everything we talk about certainly all the reporting about private equity firms

You know, taking the LA Dodgers and the LA Lakers and now the Yankees and could you imagine private equity in in in world football?

I mean uh n not to saying that there is some ho holier than now biblical statement to be made about World Cups being every four years, but as we see the intensity and the high performance demands on on soccer players consistently

The fact is the idea of having a men's World Cup every two years, the fact of having a club World Cup, like we saw last summer, and we can have an hour long conversation about how ridiculous that was.

uh having that every two years.

This is literally a power play between FIFA, who sees that the European Confederation UEFA constantly is making money with the Champions League, the Women's Champions League, the chan the UEFA Conference League, the UEP UEFA Europa League, not to mention the Euros that they do every four years.

And the and the and the they're flush with cash and they're flush with resources and FIFA

I mean that's what money does.

It creates competition.

And Gianni Infantino wanted to be the guy, uh being the president of FIFA, not understanding that it's a non profit organization that makes him a steward of the game.

He's more obsessed with the the the money aspect of it and and truth be told, certainly.

We know that money is rife everywhere, as I said off the top.

But the fact is this is a sport internationally that when you try to touch that third rail about altering the aspect of o of the game, m selling it off to private equity, you've certainly seen this revulsion around the world.

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