History of FIFA: Gianni Infantino Part 2 - Sports Bizarre
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It's Titus O'Reilly and Mick Molloy. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the latest episode of Sports Bazaar with me, Mick Molloy, and Titus O'Reilly, who has been wading through the World Cup and FIFA.
It's our happy place, FIFA, isn't it? Because there's always something. Never lets you down. They're just always up to no good, and they're brazen. They're still at it. They're still at it. They're brazen about it. Where did we leave off last time? So obviously we're looking at Infantino, Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA. Where we'd left off is he'd been president within the first two years. Been promising a broom. Broom, reform. He didn't say we're going to make FIFA great again. He did say we're going to make you proud of FIFA again. So, you know, he said all that. So he'd really come in talking talk. But as we covered in the last ep, quite a little bit of, well, talking the talk, a little bit of also I'm going to give you a lot of money.
It's like what's said pre-election and post-election constantly, isn't it? You know, the political equivalent is everyone says they want climate change and equality and all these things and then someone comes in and goes, I'll also give you a baby bonus and everyone goes, I'll vote for the baby bonus. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of sad in its predictability. So where we left off is within his first two years as president, He had been named in the Panama Papers. Yeah. He'd had the FIFA Ethics Committee launch a couple of investigations into him. Wow. Including we discovered that Sepp Blatter had a mattress, a bed in one of his offices at FIFA. Yeah, we did. Has he ever had a bed in an office? Well, a couch to me is a bed.
Yeah, pretty much a bed. Alan Bond, remember, had a spa in his office. That's interesting, isn't it?
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Have you got your dogs? Because your dogs are required for this meeting. And then, of course, where we finished off at the end of last episode is he was winding back all the reforms that had been brought in in 2015 after Sepp Blatter had gone down, after all the execs had been arrested by the... FBI and the SWIFT authorities, remember they brought in all these various things and he had just quietly got rid of the three key men that are running the ethics committee, the governance committee, all gone. And so we are back to a situation that was not unlike before. And within two years, we're not talking – years and years away from this we're talking within two years we're in 2018 at this point and suddenly after he's done all this and the russian world cup is fast approaching confidential documents are leaked to a german magazine who print them all about two secret meetings that occurred between michael lauba the attorney general of switzerland and infantino
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:29
2
How did Gianni Infantino reshape FIFA governance after becoming president?
6:29–14:52
3
What were the secret meetings with the Swiss Attorney General and why did they matter?
14:52–22:39
4
How did the Swiss special prosecutor investigate Infantino and what were the outcomes?
22:39–34:31
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