Is The World Cup For Sale?
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Hello, we are recording this episode of Newscast on Friday afternoon, and normally at this point we'd be looking back at the big events in British politics this week, a bit of a retrospective. But there's so many huge news stories happening elsewhere, we've decided to do some of them instead. So in the second half, you will hear about a huge development in Gaza, and in the first half, you will hear about an absolutely enormous visible-from-space bus stop in in the world of international football that will have ramifications even if you're not even remotely interested in football so that is what's coming up in this episode of newscast newscast newscast from the bbc humanity's next great voyage begins you know i like my buses i'll come on to them i see that he was i guess the mayor of a town thinking about it like a panto helped do we play music now what do we do and what will you do stare at a wall
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio. And first of all, we're going to talk about this huge bust up around international football. And it goes like this. A few days ago, Gianni Infantino, who's the boss of FIFA, football's world governing body, unveiled this hitherto secret plan to create a new subsidiary company which would oversee FIFA's international events like World Cups, men's and women's and others, and allow private investors to buy a stake in that which means they could make money out of it. Now, this plan would have to be approved by a majority of the national federations who comprise the FIFA membership. And this has caused uproar amongst lots of the federations. So for example, on Thursday night, UEFA, which represents the 55 European federations, said, no way are we going along with this.
And if it happens, we will boycott any future FIFA events like the World Cup. And throughout Friday, we've seen more and more federations doing the same things, which means that the future of Gianni Infantino, a quite controversial person in world football anyway, is starting to look a little bit hazy. So it is an interesting story where there is a complete collision between football, money, power... politics, America, the rest of the world, and also just these huge spectacles that you can buy into, whether you like football or not. Or in this case, actually buy into if you're a rich investor. So to help us understand what's going on, we're joined in the newscast studio by BBC Business Editor, Simon Jack.
Hi, Simon. Hello, Adam. And you come bearing a PowerPoint presentation. I have got hold of the PowerPoint presentation that was sent by FIFA yesterday. to the 211 member organisations mapping out why they're trying to do this plan and what they'll get out of it and why it's a good idea. And we will dig into those numbers in that presentation in a second. But we're also joined by BBC Sports News presenter Jane Dougal, who's on the line. Hello, Jane.
Hello, Adam. Hello, Simon.
Hello. So before Simon does the numbers and gives us a little PowerPoint presentation with no clicker, Jane, can you just give us the big picture about what the FIFA boss Gianni Infantino is actually trying to achieve here? And then we can do the numbers and the politics.
Yeah. So this has been a seismic moment in football. We knew that UEFA, the European branch, as it were, of world football, had been critical of FIFA's handling of football. This proposal that they have to sell off stakes in FIFA's major events to private investors. They had said that FIFA was using the sport to enrich themselves and their friends.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:33
2
What sparked the sudden FIFA–UEFA bust up over selling World Cup stakes?
11:33–12:06
3
What exactly does Gianni Infantino’s proposal to sell FIFA competition stakes involve?
12:06–25:58
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How did UEFA and other confederations respond and threaten a boycott?
25:58–35:17