Hey Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers early and ad free on Amazon Music.

Download the app today. Sachi, how much attention are you paying to professional sports?

I pay attention when I think it serves me, when I can bandwagon effectively when the outfits are cute.

You know, I saw you bandwagon as a raptor's head.

You should see me in Brooklyn.

I am relentless about Toronto teams in Brooklyn. It's all I have, you know?

Well, what I learned with this episode is that I finally get why people are so invested in what happens behind the scenes in sports.

I mean to compare it to something familiar to us it is kind of like the real housewives

but the stakes are higher and I know that seems impossible but just wait.

Oh see now I'm invested.

It's the afternoon of April 19th, 2021 at a massive convention center on the banks of Lake Geneva.

A tall lean man hunches over his laptop. He's in his 50s with buzzed brown hair.

His name is Alexander Sheffering,

and he's working on a speech he's already revised four times.

Sheffering is super accomplished and a little intimidating.

He's a lawyer by trade and has a black belt in karate. He once

served as a soldier for his home country of Slovenia and actually saw combat. But now

he's got a high profile job that's about to put him on a different kind of

front line. He's a president of the Union of European Football Association,

otherwise known as Uefa, which means he's in charge of Europe's biggest football competition, the

Champions League. Shefferen is here in Switzerland for Uefa's annual meeting.

This is usually a pretty standard press conference, but this time he's in the eye of an international

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