Gianni Infantino: the most powerful man in football?

The FIFA president has delivered controversial World Cups, overseen expansion, and revamped the Club World Cup

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00:01What do we want as persons?

00:03We want to be healthy and happy, don't we?

00:06FIFA is official health and happiness provider to humanity

00:13because that's what football is doing.

00:18It's now or never.

00:19Now is the opportunity.

00:20Now we have to take this opportunity.

00:22Now we have to take the turn.

00:24We have to make a better FIFA.

00:26Let's go FIFA. Let's go FIFA.

00:32Thank you so much.

00:33I think Sepp Batter is presiding over a deeply flawed culture

00:37and for those reasons he should go.

00:39I'm not ashamed.

00:40I regret but I'm not ashamed.

00:42I think FIFA needs to come back to football

00:45and I think I'm somebody who can bring FIFA back to football.

00:49We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA

00:53and everyone in the world will applaud us

00:55and we'll applaud all of you for what we'll do in FIFA in the future.

01:00He's not a politician. He's not a superstar.

01:02I'm very confident he is a right man.

01:06I can say it even more with more conviction

01:10because I lifted and you lifted.

01:12It is the best World Cup ever.

01:14Today I have very strong feelings.

01:19Today I feel Qatari, Arab, African, gay, disabled, a migrant worker.

01:25You can crucify me. I'm here for that.

01:28This is going to be a game-changer for club football globally.

01:35Do I have to say that I love the competition?

01:37I don't. I think it's useless because of the health.

01:41There is really no downside at all and there are only upsides.

01:4816 more countries, some of which probably would never have dreamt to participate in a World Cup,

01:55will have the chance to participate.

01:5848 national teams will compete in 78 matches right here in the USA.

02:03And that'll be something very, very different and very special.

02:07And then in 2034, the FIFA World Cup here in Saudi Arabia,

02:12in between, of course, the 2030 World Cup.

02:15A lot of excitement going on in the world's number one sport, football.

02:21The year's number of tactics in the world is zero three.