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Soccer 101

#186 Who is Gianni Infantino and what does he do?

Soccer 101

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Soccer, Sports

4.9853 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, we try (and instantly fail) to give an objective look at Gianni Infantino, our current FIFA President. Where did he come from? How much power does he actually have? Has he been a good President or has he been a FIFA President? All that and more!

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to Soccer 101.

0:16.9

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we're talking FIFA, and in particular, we're talking

0:22.0

FIFA presidents, specifically Gianni Infantino, following the resignation of set bladder and multiple

0:27.5

different corruption investigations, which also enveloped Secretary General Jerome Valca,

0:31.8

UEFA president, and FIFA presidential contender Michelle Plotini, insteped the man named Gianni

0:37.3

Gianni and the rest is financial history named Gianni Enfantino, and the rest

0:38.4

is financial history. But who is Infantino? What does he actually do? And has he been a positive

0:43.8

or negative force in world soccer? Here with me to talk it all out is a man who, I'm assuming,

0:48.8

will succeed Gianni Infantino if and when he is inevitably brought down by corruption allegations.

0:55.0

Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Yes, I've already bought my beige hoodie, and I am very excited to talk about everyone's favorite football administrator today, Mr. Infantino.

1:04.3

Everyone's favorite football administrator is what he would maybe like to believe he is.

1:09.5

Yes, exactly. Let's start there, Graham.

1:11.9

So in the past, FIFA has maybe had, like, former players involved or people, like,

1:17.9

really connected to the actual playing of the game.

1:21.6

Gianfantino is not one of those people.

1:23.8

Is that fair to say?

1:25.6

Yes, he is, he is, like he was the, he was like, Taylor

1:28.6

built, he was custom built for a job in, like, football administration where he, he, he,

1:33.8

he studies law at university, he becomes a lawyer at UEFA in the year 2000, then kind of like

1:39.3

just works his way through the ranks. But everything from the fact, like he's got dual nationality, but he was

1:45.7

born in Switzerland, which is obviously where UEFA and FIFA are both based. He speaks seven

1:51.0

different languages. Yeah, he's like custom built for this job. And so I've given the quick

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