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His whole kind of power model rests on providing as much income to each of FIFA's, I think,

209 member nations as

possible. And to do that, he needs to create content. We're all in the content creation

business, Roj. Me, you, Gianni, we're all exactly the same. We're all just humble

podcaster. Gianni's just a podcaster who got too much power.

It's Rodge, and we are just over 36 hours away

before Leo Messies into Miami as they're officially known

and take on potentially jet-lagged Egyptian giants

and Achli in front of that dynamically priced crowd

at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium in the opening

match of this summer's Club World Cup.

It seems to be FIFA's own version of the We Are the World Recording Sessions,

bringing together some of the world's biggest football clubs and some of its lesser-known teams,

the Tito Jackson's of the opt-to-power rankings, if you will,

for a month of matches that will be littered across the United States.

In some degree, a 30-day run of fixtures that might end up with all of us knowing

a little bit more about South Africa's mammalode sundowns than we ever thought was

humanly possible. And to help us

understand it all, how we got here,

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