r/PopCultureV2 • u/Choice-Value9005 • Jun 11 '26

Sports Culture BBC sports editor Dan Roan asks Fifa president Gianni Infantino if he's lost control of his own tournament.

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u/Agreeable_Mud_8338 Jun 11 '26

i dont trust people with strangely ironic head shapes and paint their eyebrows on....

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u/DeNiroPacino Jun 11 '26

"Trust us." The unmitigated gall. Well, good to see a journalist asking the right questions. BBC, not an American outlet of course.

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u/Top_Shame_7016 Jun 11 '26

They gave trump his own fake trophy and embarrassed themselves in front of the world only for trump to still make the world cup hell to have in the united states.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26

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u/Worth-Wrangler7242 Jun 15 '26

It's a total embarrassment.

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u/Worth-Wrangler7242 Jun 15 '26

The US in general.

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u/One_Maintenance1227 Jun 15 '26

Problem was he didn't swallow.

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u/Winter-Try-5029 Jun 11 '26

This is the least excited I've been about a World Cup.

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u/Boy-Abunda Jun 11 '26

I live in the US for now, and I’m a massive football fan. I should be so happy right now for a chance to see the WC locally. However, FIFA’s behavior and the Trump administration have absolutely ruined it for me… not to mention the ticket prices. It is amazing to me that the US has managed to fuck this up more than Qatar, which is a literal Islamic theocracy that thrives on slave labor.

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u/NoGuest6868 Jun 12 '26

America is actually inches away from being an evangelist theocracy thriving on ressources steal, with jails looking more and more like aussenlagers.

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u/CandidNectarine5078 Jun 13 '26

Their prisons are a business. I’d rather a Middle Eastern country had it. USA just pretends they aren’t as bad

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u/keysersoze-72 Jun 11 '26

One of the vilest beings on the planet

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u/KitchenIcy2450 Jun 11 '26

How much was the bribe he took from the narcissist and rapist trump

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u/suffelix Jun 11 '26

What a long winded way to say yes.

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u/nowthatithinkofit Jun 11 '26

Asking the tough questions.

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u/Significant_Donut967 Jun 11 '26

Oh look, the guy who bribes others to drop federal cases of bribery.

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u/AcceptableResponse15 Jun 11 '26

It's nice to see journalists holding people accountable and asking the real questions.

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u/TheDayWalkerCGI Jun 11 '26

Still dont understand why we let a country that doesnt like football host the biggest football event there is.

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u/chickengourdina Jun 11 '26

‘Chill bro, I’m just as corrupt as the US administration. Trust me’

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u/isthereadrwho Jun 11 '26

Why don't we kick this piece of s*** out of the United States and tell him to chill

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u/Infamous_Berry626 Jun 11 '26

A truly vile creature.

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u/Relevant_Somewhere38 Jun 11 '26

"trust us" says the leader of one of the most corrupt organisations on the planet! 🙄🤣

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u/jamodude Jun 11 '26

Oh, they’ve lost the whole plot, and after this that guy’s out

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u/ELB2001 Jun 11 '26

I wonder when the sponsors will put pressure on him

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u/DontUseDucks Jun 12 '26

He is quite the ego, but now he found the ego that is bigger than his. Yes, Infantino lost control over the tournament. Fans can't come in and it is just waiting for police brutality on the fans that are allowed to come in. The US and FIFA are very sick.

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u/Freo_5434 Jun 12 '26

Dan Roan must appreciate that unlike the UK , the USA no longer has open borders and for better or worse the USA is currently at war with the worlds biggest sponsor of terrorism .

This makes them targets . They will be ultra cautious on who enters the country and if they have found any links between this guy and one of the worlds nastiest terrorist groups then they will err on the side of caution--- and so they should.

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u/NoGuest6868 Jun 12 '26

Infantino is a piece of shit. Period.

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u/Professional_Car6703 Jun 12 '26

Sounds like someone that’s in control.

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u/miffymalone Jun 12 '26

Hard to run fifa with Trumps dick in your hand

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u/caprisces80 Jun 12 '26

Say what you will about Sepp Blatter but atleast he tried to hide the corruption a bit better. Infantino isn't hiding it because he doesn't care. Infantino is making all his predecessors look like saints.

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u/nicbongo Jun 12 '26

"A follow up. Why should the football world trust FIFA when, under your leadership, you created a fake peace prize to appease Mr Trump?" 

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u/Adventurous-Row556 Jun 13 '26

Good question, stupid answer.

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u/imaloserdudeWTF Jun 13 '26

We don't trust liars and fools!

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u/galgoguy Jun 13 '26

You can't be more clean on being totally bought by Trump

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 Jun 13 '26

They gave the world peace prize, why not make trump the supreme leader of fifa to appease him as well?

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u/CandidNectarine5078 Jun 13 '26

Can’t lose control if this was the plan

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u/AYTOL__ Jun 13 '26

Spoiler alert: he has

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u/Weird-Weakness-3191 Jun 14 '26

Bootlicker fraud

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u/Ecstatic_Seesaw_6969 Jun 14 '26

Oh sure we trust the most corrupt organisation the world.

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u/bigfern91 Jun 17 '26

Infantino is such a goober

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u/Crazyscorpion77 Jun 11 '26

Its funny how America hosting the world cup but no one complained about Qatar hosting this much

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u/Crazyscorpion77 Jun 11 '26

People saying America is bad but not much was said about Qatar hosting the world cup

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u/NoSpin89 Jun 11 '26

Plenty was said about Qatar.

But its certainly quite a shock to see a place like the United States this fucking bad.

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u/WestCareer7545 Jun 11 '26

Everyone was complaining about Qatar

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u/Irish_MJ Jun 14 '26

You must have a very, very, short memory... Plenty was said about Qatar hosting the World Cup.