Gianni Infantino has a new idea, and like most of his ideas it’s not one many are going to like, except maybe Donald Trump
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perfectly friendly-looking American guy, sharp suit, early 50s is wandering around Miami. He tells me that in the last 10 years the city has turned into a “magnet for dreamers, doers and visionaries, a launchpad where ideas take flight, where connections spark movements, where legacies are born”.
I nod sagely, pretending to know what that means before clicking the X in the top right of the YouTube tab. The man in question is in fact the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, encouraging me and other leaders of industry to pay lots of money to attend the America Business Forum. The website tells me “America Business Forum comes to the United States for the first time” – which begs the question where they’ve held it previously. I’m no CEO, I don’t keep a diary, but I’d have put America right up there as locations to hold a forum on American business.
If you’re one of the first people to read this, well you could just about get a ticket, otherwise it’s too late – missed the chance to see the guy who set up WeWork tell us the wifi password, or see Rafa Nadal tell me how to grow my self-improvement podcast. The $10,000 early bird Diamond package “for those who lead change and want to be at the center of everything” was already sold out anyway. It’s tiring enough being the centre of my own existence, let alone everything.
