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COMMENT: On July 28, Dave gave the last month­ly talk for July. Sup­ple­ment­ing a talk by the bril­liant Hal Sander­son about fas­cism and the World Cup, this pre­sen­ta­tion adds depth and con­fir­ma­tion to many of the lines of inquiry pre­sent­ed in Hal’s dis­course.

No one has done more to fur­ther soc­cer (what the rest of the world calls foot­ball) in the U.S. than Lamar Hunt. Son of H.L. Hunt and asso­ci­at­ed with Jack Ruby and Jim Braden (aka Eugene Hale Brad­ing), Lamar Hunt’s name crops up in the con­text of the JFK assas­si­na­tion.

He found­ed Major League Soc­cer and helped craft Kansas City into a soccer/football epi­cen­ter.

From Trump’s suc­cess­ful pres­sure on the head of FIFA to reverse the Red Card sus­pen­sion of the Amer­i­can team’s top scor­er to an FBI inves­ti­ga­tion of the Argen­tine Foot­ball Association’s fun­nel­ing of $300 mil­lion into Mia­mi, the mar­row-deep cor­rup­tion of FIFA is inescapable.

The Argen­tine team was a major ben­e­fi­cia­ry of that appar­ent cor­rup­tion, right down to their overt break­ing of FIFA rules by dis­play­ing a ban­ner assert­ing that the Falk­land Islands (Malv­inas to the Argen­tines).

The Ger­man firm Adi­das was (arguably) the main ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the World Cup pro­ceed­ings, help­ing to fur­ther the build­ing of their sports empire, under the stew­ard­ship of Bjorn Gulden, who came to Adi­das from Puma.

Points of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: The CIA/Secret Ser­vice back­ground to the secu­ri­ty direc­tor for the Amer­i­can World Cup team Frank Pan­nell; The sus­pen­sion of the team’s man­ag­er Sam Zap­at­ka and Pan­nell (pos­si­bly in con­nec­tion with Trump’s pres­sure to rescind the Red Card sus­pen­sion of Folar­in Baloqun’s Red Card; Lamar Hunt’s found­ing of the North Amer­i­can Soc­cer League; A major cocaine bust in Spain, with the cen­tral fig­ure in the inves­ti­ga­tion being a major sup­port­er of Real Madrid and some­one who was think­ing of invest­ing in Argen­tine soc­cer play­ers; The Argen­tine team’s extra­or­di­nary record of ref­er­ee calls that favor them and pun­ish the opposition—something that per­sist­ed through­out the World Cup tour­na­ment; Review of the role of the Argen­tine branch of the fas­cist P‑2 Lodge in the financ­ing of Exo­cet cruise mis­siles to be used against British naval forces in the Falk­lands War; Argen­tine star Lionel Messi’s rela­tion­ship to Israeli intel­li­gence; Argen­tine pres­i­dent Javier Milei’s “fire sale” of land and nat­ur­al resources—eclipsed by the per­for­mance of Argenti­na in the World Cup; The curi­ous selec­tion of a Major League Soc­cer ref­er­ee one of the Argen­tine team’s games; The head of FIFA’s curi­ous let­ter to Don­ald Trump; Review of the Nazi her­itage of both Adi­das and Puma (found­ed by the Dassler broth­ers, who had served the Third Reich); Review of the use of Dassler com­pa­ny track shoes by Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics; Adidas’s craft­ing of run­ning shoes used by the win­ners of the Lon­don Marathon.