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“This is a good day for the sport,” said a beaming Gulati, who’s also on the FIFA Executive Committee (soon to be renamed the FIFA Council). “The reforms got passed this morning. We have a candidate [Infantino] that we’re supportive of, that we get along very well with, that understands the nuances of the American market. I think it’s a little early to talk about [World Cup] 2026, but you can rest assured that it got brought up in some of the discussions we’ve had over the last couple of days.”
For many years, as he made his way through the thicket of world soccer politics, Gulati aimed high but often missed out on his biggest targets. In 1998, he suffered a stunning loss for the U.S. Soccer Executive VP post to an unknown Dunkin Donuts owner named John Motta. He struck out trying to land Jurgen Klinsmann as a player for Major League Soccer in ’98 (when Gulati was MLS’s deputy commissioner) and then again as a coach for the U.S. national team in 2006 after Gulati had rallied to become U.S. Soccer president earlier that year (He did, eventually, land Klinsmann as his manager in 2011)
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016...nil-gulati-usa
For many years, as he made his way through the thicket of world soccer politics, Gulati aimed high but often missed out on his biggest targets. In 1998, he suffered a stunning loss for the U.S. Soccer Executive VP post to an unknown Dunkin Donuts owner named John Motta. He struck out trying to land Jurgen Klinsmann as a player for Major League Soccer in ’98 (when Gulati was MLS’s deputy commissioner) and then again as a coach for the U.S. national team in 2006 after Gulati had rallied to become U.S. Soccer president earlier that year (He did, eventually, land Klinsmann as his manager in 2011)
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016...nil-gulati-usa