Pablo Torre

FIFA's model though, what they are selling is its own, is its own distinct package.

How would you explain what's folded inside of it?

Right.

Right.

And on some level, I get security, very important, very expensive.

But the reason I'm opening my folder here to this first massive file is that this is...

something that speaks to one of the terms that you mentioned, which is traffic support.

And the notion of traffic support, it is, it turns out, codified in the host city agreement, I'm reading from the front page, between Federation Internationale de Football Association, this is FIFA based in Switzerland, and not only the United States Soccer Federation, but the city of Seattle.

Parentheses, quote, host city authority agreement.

And in this, how would you explain what gets detailed?

The host city authority shall support police escorts for the ground transport of team delegation members and referees on match days.

I was going to say VVIP is a level of V that I wasn't familiar with.

Right.

One of the things that I've been fascinated by, though, is like, what has it been like for the head of a major American city to be approached by Johnny Infantino and his band of V and VVIPs who are demanding all this stuff when America, I would have imagined, isn't as desperate as countries that don't have the built-in ego, I would have imagined, or resources.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I believe the quote in your article in The Athletic was...

And something we really prize on this show is, to whatever extent possible, getting an unvarnished accounting of ego.

And so one of the people that you talk to is someone who I want to introduce to our audience in case you weren't familiar with his line of work.

It may do.

Maybe we can get on to that.