History of FIFA Gianni Infantino Part 3 - Sports Bizarre
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What is the episode about and how does the World Cup context set the scene?
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The hunt for the weirdest.
Hang on a second. This is so bonkers. You can't be doing that. Strangers. This is nuts. Yeah, this is borderline psychotic. It's only going to just increase on the show. Most unbelievable. This guy's the greatest villain of all time. There's a lot going on. Can't keep up.
Stories to ever occur. I'm learning a lot today. Hold on to your hands because we're just getting started. In the world of sport.
That's the worst script I've ever heard. Well, it's not over. Oh, hello. I've gone too early.
Sports Bizarre. Tells member of the media to suck it and keep on sucking it. Rupert joined a local circus and was learning the art of swallowing live snakes. threw the ball down, mounted his horse and rode away and never played again.
It's time for the leaders of the hunt. Get the whiteboard out or I refuse to go any further. It's Titus O'Reilly and Mick Molloy. Hello everybody and welcome to the last episode of Sports Bazaar with my good self Mick Molloy and of course wrapping up. another World Cup series is the big man, Titus O'Reilly.
Titus, where are we at? Well, we're recording this after the World Cup's been run and won. Spain, of course, winning.
Over Argentina, who were brave and very sporty. Very sporty. They're known for that. Oh, they took it well. They took it so well. Anyone who punches on after the siren.
That is terrible behaviour.
Jude Bellingham did it too for England, remember?
So there were some sort of losers.
That's permanent record stuff, I reckon. Yeah. The histrionics, the theatre, the absolute poor behaviour exhibited. It's an asterisk, I reckon. You just go, maybe that's why you didn't win. Spain, at the other end, are unruffled going about the business.
Yeah, they weren't mucking around.
They weren't rolling around and… carrying on at the ref. The carry-on was unbelievable. Yeah, it's unbelievable. The ref would have wished he was back at a sex party. That's right. There was more rough stuff than his sex party.
That's right. The police raided a party he was at, which was a sex party. I think he was not charged with anything. He said he was just there incidentally. Yeah. Often I'm at an orgy and just to watch just by complete coincidence.
Can we hurry this up because I've got one pencil.
You've got one pencil.
I don't know.
So it's won and run, but that's of little interest what happens on the pitch.
Oh, yeah, you've got to love FIFA, though. We had the ref that had been done for match fixing, back umpiring the referee this time, and then we had the ref that had the sex party.
So even their refs are more colourful than most sports athletes. Every part of this tournament is tainted in some way, even to my naive eye, and I don't watch a lot, People are going, gee, they seem to be getting Argentina, getting the rub of the green. Rub of the green.
A lot. It's always, look, I think you and I both know, beyond FIFA to fix a match.
Well, I wouldn't suggest it.
They just couldn't do it, would they?
Not under the shadow of the FIFA Ethics Committee.
Just knowing they're lurking would be enough to pull your punches. Straight and narrow. Talking about the World Cup just finished up, Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, was all over it. He was omnipresent, wasn't he, at the time? To the very end.
To the very end. When he tried to drag Trump off stage.
Yeah. And we're going to get into today two major parts of his legacy. That is the awarding of the World Cup to Saudi Arabia and then this – recent tournament he's just delivered.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the episode about and how does the World Cup context set the scene?
0:00–11:09
2
How did Gianni Infantino build relationships with Qatar and Saudi Arabia starting around 2018?
11:09–21:44
3
How did Saudi Arabia invest in sport and why did FIFA welcome that money?
21:44–45:41
4
What procedural changes did FIFA make to fast-track 2034 and how did that advantage Saudi Arabia?
45:41–49:19
Speakers
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