FIFA Chief Under Pressure as Trump Creates New Challenges for the World Cup
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How is Donald Trump impacting the FIFA World Cup?
Donald Trump is destroying the FIFA World Cup before it really even begins in earnest. And FIFA's head, Gianni Infantino, is getting the karma he deserves. Gianni Infantino, a Trump bootlicker who literally had FIFA buy offices in Trump Tower to divert money to Donald Trump while the office sat dormant. Gianni Infantino, who awarded Donald Trump a fake fifa peace prize so donald trump can feel all tough after losing the nobel peace prize gianni infantino who would show up at all of these white house events and sit next to world leaders and cosplay like he was a president prime minister or prince he's now saying chill chill chill We're just a soccer league.
What role does Gianni Infantino play in the FIFA controversy?
There's nothing we really can do when the United States is out there in a very racist way under the Trump regime, banning the world-renowned Somali referee Omar Artin. What can we do as the United States bans fans, media, team officials for many of the teams around the world? If Donald Trump just doesn't like your country based on his racist views or if Donald Trump wants to just politicize the FIFA World Cup or if Donald Trump wants to call the Iranian football team and their officials and their managers terrorists What can I do? I'm just a soccer league. It's just the governments are doing it. Or how about the treatment already, the horrific treatment of teams and their managers by Border Patrol and other American officials who have done like cavity searches and strip searches or who have, you know, sent people back to their country or have held people detained for hours and hours.
Gianni Infantino, you want to take any accountability? No. Hey, Gianni Infantino, what about the 180,000 resale tickets that are currently still available after your scammy kind of price system where you priced out a lot of football and soccer fans? What about all of that, Gianni Infantino? And then, by the way, you have Rudy Giuliani's kid, Andrew Giuliani, who's ahead of the World Cup in the United States. He leads the U.S. World Cup organization that works with FIFA. He's already out there blaming the World Health Organization for disease outbreaks that are more likely now, whether it's the form of influenza. ebola or measles or hanta he's saying it's europe's fault even though the us pulled out of the world health organization the who should have done better ebola detection even though the us has pulled out andrew giuliani is like we think it's a smart decision to stop all of these individuals who donald trump thinks aren't the right people to show up because they may be terrorists or very dangerous
to our country. We've never had in the history of FIFA, and I'm talking about recent FIFAs in Russia and Qatar and other places that are viewed as traditionally repressive authoritarian type regime. they didn't do these things right here. And the contrast, by the way, between how Mexico is treating everybody who shows up, how Canada is treating everybody, and how the fascist authoritarian United States is treating everybody, it's like night and day when you see, you know, the U.S. basically, you know, putting the Uzbekistan team in, like, a mini prison before they were able to actually get into the United States. And we're talking about like world-class athletes too. If that's how they're treating them, imagine how the Trump regime is treating other people.
And you contrast that to Spain. They've got the mariachi and the dancers who are showing, who are right out there when the teams are arriving there. And by the way, the Iranian team is like We love Mexico. They go, we heard the cartels are big fans as well. But they're like, the people in Mexico treat us so great over here. Anyway, let's go. I just wanna go through. I wanna bring the receipts right now. So Gianni Infantino, I'll show you just some B-roll over here of him sitting with world leaders when he was like invited to all of these Donald Trump events. He felt all big and tough. And here he is right here now. Fast forward to yesterday and he's being asked by the press, why don't you do something?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is Donald Trump impacting the FIFA World Cup?
0:00–0:54
2
What role does Gianni Infantino play in the FIFA controversy?
0:54–5:17
3
How are travel bans affecting World Cup participants?
5:17–6:55
4
What are the implications of the U.S. banning certain referees?
6:55–14:46
5
How does the treatment of teams differ between countries?
14:46–18:50
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