Gianni Infantino's Take on World Cup Unity and Access

But you know who's really angry at all this speculation? Who has the most to say? Gianni Infantino Camilla. He put out a 15-page carousel on Instagram decrying everyone that was spreading hate instead of celebrating the wins of the World Cup, the ability to bring people together. And he went to the extent of, you know, celebrating the granting of visas and the access that Iran had to the competition even though that they are forbidden to come into the country. This was disingenuous from Infantino or was necessary? Listen, I mean, I definitely think it was a kind of wild take from him. Do I think the World Cup created unity throughout the world through the beautiful game? Absolutely. Do I think it was his doing? No, definitely not. It wasn't those $2,000, $10,000 tickets that created all that. That's the culture of the beautiful sport that we know and we love. But listen, I mean, I wouldn't say it was necessary. I maybe understand where he was coming from. I'm sure, you know, people behind the scenes did their best. I don't think it was him, but I don't know. There's a lot of room for discourse. Without a doubt, there's a lot of room for discourse because this World Cup, and we're going to talk about it later in depth, has created the biggest, you know, basket of revenue that we've ever seen. The growth of the revenue for this tournament is... It doubled. It doubled, well, again, doubled the games, doubled the money. The prices of the food and drinks in the stadium were off the hook. And we saw the prices, like you said, thousands of dollars to go to the stadium. Without a doubt, we brought the world together. The game has done what it always does, bring happiness to everybody's life. But to go and say that Gianni Infantino is fixing the world, I don't know. There's a lot to be said. Camila, can we expect a better version of this tournament in the upcoming edition now that we go six countries? Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay will host one game each, at least. And then Portugal and Morocco will be hosting the tournament. I mean, I think, you know, this World Cup truly did feel like something special to me. I think there was just, you know, so many people that weren't even into soccer before, at least here in the United States, were watching it. Of course, we were the host country. But I expect that energy to stay and to linger. into the next World Cup. So I'm hoping that, you know, the energy just multiplies and it gets even better. And I'm very hopeful going into this next World Cup.