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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Jamie Rudd. This is the messy effect and

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FIFA may have just opened the biggest fight in football's history.

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Let's get into it. The lead is FIFA's plan to

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sell a stake in the commercial business of the World Cup.

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has unveiled a proposal for a

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roughly twenty billion dollar commercial entity that would sell minority

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stakes to private investors and put outside money into the

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World Cup's commercial rights. Reports say the Kushner family is

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among the investors being discussed. The proposal is already facing

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furious resistance from UEFA, which says FIFA is crossing a

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line and that the soul of football is not FIFA's

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to sell. The stakes could get even higher this week.

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UEFA is preparing an emergency meeting to discuss the proposal,

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and a World Cup boycott has reportedly entered the conversation.

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That would be an extraordinary escalation. European football is not

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just objecting to a business deal, It is challenging who

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gets to control the sport's biggest event and who gets

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to profit from it. FIFA wants more capital and a

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bigger commercial machine. UEFA is warning that the world Cup

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cannot become a private equity project. This story is not

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going away. Now to the controversy corner, the International Football

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Association Board, the game's rule making body, has confirmed that

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the var process used to send off Switzerland's brial En

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Below against Argentina was wrong. In the World Cup quarterfinal,

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the referee used the mistaken identity protocol to rescind a

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yellow card for Argentina's Leandro Parides and give En Below

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a second yellow for simulation. IFAB says that protocol cannot

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be used that way. Argentina went on to win three

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to one in extra time while Switzerland played with ten men. Egypt,

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another Argentina opponent, has also complained about officiating. That does

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not prove a conspiracy, but it does mean the tournament

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now has a serious officiating controversy attached to one of

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Argentina's biggest matches. The rules body has admitted the process

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was wrong, and that is enough to keep the questions alive.

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There is also a decision coming for the United States

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Men's national team. US Soccer has offered Mauricio Pochettino an

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extension through the twenty thirty World Cup cycle. The USMNT

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went out in the round of sixteen with a four

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to one defeat to Belgium on home soil. So continuity

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is not an obvious choice to everybody, but the federation

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appears to believe Pochettino is the right person to build

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through the next cycle. If he signs, he would be

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the longest serving US men's national team coach since Bruce Arena.

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A decision is expected soon and the transfer window is

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still moving. Real Madrid are continuing their pursuit of rod

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Ree with a fresh update reportedly suggesting the Spanish club

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remains determined to make the Manchester City midfielder a major

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target after Madrid's post World Cup spending spree. This is

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the one move that could reshape the top of European football.

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City have no reason to make it easy, but Madrid

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are not going away, so that's where we are. FIFA

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wants to turn the World Cup into a bigger private

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commercial operation. UEFA is considering an emergency response IFAB has

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admitted the Argentina var process was wrong. Pochettino is weighing

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his future with the USMNT, and Real Madrid are still

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circling Rodriy for the messy effect. I'm Jamie Rudd,