Tom Bogert
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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worse.
And I don't know if that's just because it's being Americanized and the rush of capitalism and get every single dollar for your shareholders for allegedly a nonprofit organization.
I don't know if that's just a sign of the times and things continue to get worse and worse because we were focused more in Qatar over the human rights.
There were migrant workers dying in the lead up to that tournament trying to build stadiums.
There was the fiasco of the World Cup is always held in the summer.
Except in the Middle East, it's 120 degrees in the summer.
So they moved it to the winter.
And so there was a lot of other things to deal with.
And just again, at every turn, if FIFA is unchecked and they don't feel any shame and they're still going to do all this, like Gianni Infantino, the president, they I think he's feeling some heat over all of the public backlash.
They probably won't change anything.
But he kind of doubled down on the prices like, you know, all you see.
Yeah, we make money at the World Cup, but that has to cover literally everything else we do.
Well, FIFA survived in 1994.
Tony Mioa, U.S.
soccer legend, starting goalkeeper for the U.S.
team at the 1994 World Cup.
He was at that World Cup final as a fan, just watching the game because the U.S.
obviously didn't get there.
He showed me his ticket.