Saudi Arabia: The New Home of Global Football: World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 3

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Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In episode three of this four part series, Rog and Tommy explore the rise of Saudi Arabia’s domestic football league and why superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar are flocking there. iNews’s chief football writer Daniel Storey joins the show to tell the tale of one of those players, former Liverpool captain and one-time “moral center” of English football Jordan Henderson, whose move to the Saudi pro-league led to one of the starkest falls from grace in recent sporting history. Plus, Saudi Arabia has all but secured hosting rights for the 2034 Men’s World Cup....but did football’s global governing body FIFA rig the bidding process years in advance? And with Saudi Arabia also eyeing hosting duties for the 2035 Women's World Cup, former US Women’s National Team legend Megan Rapinoe gives her thoughts on what it would mean to play football's crown jewel tournament in a country where women are assigned a male guardian and homosexuality is illegal. All of this and more on the latest episode of World Corrupt.

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0:00.0	This episode of World Corrupt is brought to you by Zebiotics, pre-alcohol probiotic.
0:05.2	Your first drink for a better tomorrow.
0:11.7	There was only going to be one winner. Saudi Arabia for the 2034 World Cup.
0:17.0	The big story which is on most of the back pages regards Saudi winning the World Cup bid to host the competition in 2034.
0:24.0	Fast-tracked by FIFA with a favourable process that deterred the only remaining contender, Australia.
0:30.0	This was a World Cup, the hierarchy of FIFA,
0:32.8	wanted to deliver to Saudi Arabia.
0:35.7	I think it will become a morality tale.
0:38.3	Blood is thicker than water, but far less lucrative than oil.
0:41.3	A nation where there's a male guardianship system in place
0:44.8	aggressively pursuing the hosting rights
0:46.9	for the 2035 Women's World Cup.
0:49.5	If it goes there, it's like rubber stamping
0:52.2	a lot of these inequalities.
0:54.0	I'm big exhale.
1:01.0	Welcome back to World Corrupt Season 2, Episode 3.
1:05.0	Oh, I feel like at this point, I think we could all use a group of great,
1:10.0	and I don't just say that because anxiety and self-loathing are factory settings to me.
1:15.6	Self-loathing is my passion, Raj. But for the listeners out there, you should go back and listen to
1:20.1	episode one and two for this episode to make any sense at all, but in case you don't feel like it respect to you I
1:25.8	respect your time here's a quick recap you're assuming people do want any of
1:29.8	this to make sense at all sometimes not knowing, oh, it's just like a beautiful warm bath, but we are the
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