english, bleep fifa. i think you can use your imagination. they are dragging fifa out of the shadows, much like the global protesters did 15 years ago with the imf and world bank. the people of brazil have performed a public service, because fifa can live in the shadows no longer. dave, thank you so much. everything you need to know about who s who and what s what in this year s world cup. that s ahead. replace your laptop?
team, but it can t possibly hope to fill that stadium. but that s the ransom demanded by fifa, which is widely and probably correctly viewed as a corrupt racket. it s run by seth bladder, an organization run awash in bribery. fifa runs rough shod over the countries that host the world cup, exempting itself from taxes and changing laws it does not like. fifa seems anxious to protect budweiser from a law designed to protect people. which is why they went to brazil with a simple message. i m sorry to say, and maybe i look a bit arrogant, but that s something we re not negotiating. there must be a spot in the law,
new york times did this amazing thing the first day of the world cup. they set up cameras in various places in brazil, and they recorded the reaction to the home team s first goal of the tournament yesterday. no matter how big of a disaster, fifa may be the connection that people have to the game, to the wu world cup and all the emotions, that endures no matter what. scenes like that are playing out all over the world. that s what is so cool about this event. more than any other event in the world, it is shared by the world. truly global tournament, across countries and cultures and to help those americans who may not be up to speed on the drama now playing out, joining me now is george karesh. george, thanks for joining us. i guess i should start with the homer question which is, is the u.s. any good and how badly are they going to do?
posters up, he said, you see who is missing? no brazilian players. i was rooting for croatia yesterday. so there s some real anger there about the idea that each rooting for brazil is also like rooting for your open displacement. just how corrupt is fifa? i mean, my goodness, if we were having a casting call for james bond villains, fifa could go for that role. the problem is they re completely unaccountable organization that operates in a manner that seems to offend everybody, but they never get called on it. that s what is historic about what s happening in brazil. yesterday, 1,000 people marched through and they chanted, in