“We’re not talking about small sums of money. We’re talking about huge sums of money that are potentially being wasted and not spent on future generations and not getting the best deal possible forFIFA. It’s really irresponsible that these decisions have been taken. Things will become clearer once the elections are over and the next executive committee takes over. But we need to re-evaluateourselves and our practices.”
— FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali on FIFA’s decision to award the U.S. media rights to the 2026 World Cup toFox Sports and Telemundo in a bid to ward off a lawsuit over its decision to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to late fall after having sold the U.S. media rights to Fox Sports and Telemundo on thebasis that the tournament would be held in June and July as usual. Twice before (1994 and 2010-14) the U.S. media rights have been sold only for different networks end up with the rights. (