Michelle Steele

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88 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Up First from NPR · Truth Social Paid Access, Colorado River Cuts, FIFA's Faceplant · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, a hydration break might be generous, Scott.

This didn't even survive a normal work week.

I think this was like half a Scaramucci or something.

And credit where it's due, Martin Ziegler at The Times with this massive story breaking on Tuesday, Infantino's plan to sell up to 20% of a new $20 billion entity, bundling all the commercial rights to the World Cup.

And you mentioned Ziegler.

The Kushner family involved, Jared Kushner's brother Joshua, was expected to lead the investor group.

And then UEFA, which is the biggest, most powerful confederation in the sport of soccer, objected.

And they didn't just object.

They voted to boycott every FIFA competition, including the World Cup, until the plan was dead.

You had the COO of FIFA saying his own staff had been deceived.

And by last night, Infantino announcing the project will not proceed.

Scott breaking literally this morning, UEFA coming out and sort of doubling down, saying they've lost confidence in Infantino entirely.

So this story is fast moving and not over by any means.

Sure.

I mean, that was the selling point to some of the poorer confederations in the sport, that they would get sort of this upfront payment.

Well, you know, there were a couple of reasons why the criticism was so harsh.

One was the head of the German Federation said he found out by reading media reports.

So when you don't have a communication strategy available,

To your principles, that's going to be a problem.

The other part of it is very existential.

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