Ring for Analysis: FIFA cut World Cup budget by $100m
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
FIFA has cut over $100 million from its operating budget for this summer’s World Cup in North America, with multiple departments at the organization’s U.S. headquarters in Miami asked to make “efficiencies”. On today’s episode, Joe and Jon perform ‘Ring for Analysis’ while reading through this story written by Adam Crafton: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7103618/2026/03/10/fifa-world-cup-budget-cut/?source=emp_shared_article
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello Joe. |
| 0:12.0 | All right, how's it going? |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, I'm all right. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | Well listen, there's a couple of very exciting things we're going to talk about on today's podcast, aren't they? |
| 0:19.0 | But first, let me tell listeners |
| 0:20.9 | what we do here at Ring for Analysis. Ring for Analysis. It's an audio exclusive podcast. You know |
| 0:28.0 | that because you're listening to it in audio. Although you could be listening to it in audio, |
| 0:31.7 | because you always listened in audio and thinking maybe there's a video of this as well. |
| 0:34.9 | I know this because I'm listening, but I'm also watching you right now. |
| 0:39.8 | So technically this isn't an audio exclusive podcast. |
| 0:42.2 | For you, it's an audio and visual exclusive podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | For listeners, it's just an audio exclusive podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | How about that? |
| 0:48.9 | Well, anyway, here's how it works. |
| 0:50.5 | I read an article from The Fabulous The Athletic. |
| 0:55.9 | And today's one was published incidentally by Adam Crafton, who's an absolutely terrific reporter, writer. And John |
| 1:00.9 | rings a little bell when he wants me to stop so he can do some analysis. That's right, |
| 1:05.5 | isn't it, John? Oh, that's a lovely little bell there, isn't it? Anyway, John, what are we |
| 1:10.3 | talking about today? |
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