And when the World Cup becomes more lucrative for commercial broadcasters, it becomes more lucrative for Fifa.
It probably doesn't matter that he's not really the biggest football fan, although "we used to play in Mogadishu when I was little, and when the World Cup came around, we'd make up different teams in different neighbourhoods representing different countries and we'd wear the uniforms".
But that, of course, was a different time, before money had quite the influence it does now, and when the European Cup represented – at most – nine additional games across the season, many of which were likely to be against significantly inferior opposition.
But it spurs you on for the next four years and when the World Cup comes around again players will still be hurting - I know I will.
So too will the open question of whether and when the Qatar World Cup will take place.
And when the Spanish Davis Cup team arrived in this blustery resort town without Rafael Nadal and with its new leader, David Ferrer, in a funk, one of the first things the underdogs did was put a sign on the wall in their locker room that read, in English, "Yes we can".
"The decibel level in the grandstand went up and up and up," Weaver said later, and when the ball disappeared into the cup, "it sounded like a clap of lightning".
In the ESC-derived optic cup, the RPE and hinge regions are elastic and evert by residual stress when the cup is excised by cutting at the proximal RPE.
"It put us on the map and the pride of the city when the cup came home here to Portsmouth was a wonder to behold".
We also compared the numbers of anteversion outliers when the cup inclination was fixed at 30°, 40°, and 50°.
