What should the new FIFA President do first?

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The FIFA election will give the world's game a new administrative leader and the draw was finally made for the historic Copa América Centenario, and these two major events provide the basis for discussion on the new episode of the Planet Fútbol Podcast. From Brazil, SI.com's James Young joins SI senior writer Grant Wahl (from Zurich), Brian Straus (from Washington, D.C.), and host Avi Creditor (from New York City), for perspective from three continents on what the next FIFA president needs to fix first, and who could come out on top of the special Copa America tournament. -- The Planet Futbol Podcast is brought to you by FreshBooks. For freelancers and small business owners, Freshbooks takes the pain out of accounting. Have a question about the service? A real-live human will answer every call in about three rings. Get your 30-day free trial by going to FreshBooks.com/planet and entering the promo code PLANET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	sports and the how you heard about us section. The only real leverage at FIFA was in the sponsors who write the checks and who ultimately
0:29.0	fund this organization.
0:31.0	Sponsors of you know press releases calling for reform and things like that but they're still
0:35.3	writing the checks.
0:37.3	But I think it depends who wins the election how much the rules are enforced and what kind of
0:41.2	culture is set from the top.
0:43.6	Set Blatter always set a culture from the top
0:46.0	that he wasn't going to crack down on bad actors.
0:50.0	So whoever comes in, I think, needs to be able to do that, or otherwise it will be business as usual.
0:55.0	Welcome to S.I's Planet Football Podcast, where each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
1:02.0	IMSI.com soccer editor,
1:04.0	Avi Creditor, joined today by S.I. senior writer Grant Wall in Zurich.
1:08.0	S.I.com's Brian Strauss,
1:11.0	in Washington, D.C. and S.I.com's James Young in Brazil. That's right, three continents, one podcast.
1:17.0	We're making a new definition of Planet Football, really.
1:21.0	Before we get started, I just want to make a special mention of last week's podcast.
1:25.0	It was Grant interviewing J.P. Delacamra, legendary U.S. soccer announcer.
1:31.0	The plan wasn't for that to go as long as it did and be as extensive as it was but their talk was was so
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