FIFA president Gianni Infantino was at AT&T Stadium on Sunday to watch the Dallas Cowboys defeat the New York Jets after accepting an invitation from Jones.
“When I think about how big soccer is around the world, and you’re sitting there with the people that kind of have the controls in their hands, relative to the game itself, it was mind boggling,” Jones said., along with MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and SoFi Stadium in California. FIFA is expected to announce the venues for key World Cup matches next month.Jones has mentioned on several occasions he is hopeful that FIFA will choose AT&T Stadium to host the World Cup final.
Before Sunday’s win, Jones stopped Cowboys star defensive player Micah Parsons from going into the locker room so he could meet the FIFA president before he headed up to the owner’s suite to sit beside Jones and Abbott. “We both were all aware of just how football around the world is so followed,” Jones said. “It’s a privilege, though, to get to do it and sit there and think my goodness ... we get to possibly talk about having the single greatest game that you can have in a sport that billions and billions of people follow around the world.”which cities will host the opening and final matches and to establish the date on which the tournament will begin.
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