Pablo Torre

And you moved here because of what's happening right now, which is the World Cup being a New York, New Jersey joint.

Exactly.

Yeah, I mean, you are, for those not initiated, you're the guy I've been turning to to help me understand what the f*** is going on in now our country.

You are the two-time reigning sports journalist of the year in the UK.

I mean, I'm just stating facts.

And you're on loan from The Athletic FC to help, I think more than anything today, bring me a folder of documents.

I have a folder.

Do you want them or am I keeping them?

I think I... It's a lot of documents.

To convey the tabs and the color-codedness and all of this and just the sound, which I think our microphones can pick up as I...

That's the sound of American exceptionalism.

I guess in figurative and also perhaps literal ways.

So from a big thousand foot view, I should say, I got to cover the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

And I got a sense on the ground of what I had heard from afar, which is,

There is a lot of money sloshing around here.

FIFA, for those not initiated, is the apex predator of notoriously corrupt sporting organizations.

But this story, as much as people may think, okay, yeah, you're talking about FIFA, corruption, Johnny Infantino, the head of FIFA, and President Donald Trump, we see them all the time exchanging golden objects.

Just the numbers on this in terms of how much FIFA is spending, we're looking at, again, just the basic math of it.

Operating budget, $1.12 billion.

The projected revenue, $11 billion.