HAS there ever been a good cup draw on TV? Football fans certainly do not think the trend has been bucked in America today.
The Fifa production of the World Cup draw has featured Heidi Klum and Kevin Hart hosting to a very quiet room.
One fan, Walker, tweeted: “That Infantino speech was the worst thing I’ve seen since Kevin Hart was on right before him.”
Also tearing into Hart, Lance Q posted: “Kevin Hart doing a terrible job of hosting the World Cup draw.”
Fans have also been treated to a Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger duet that will serve as the official World Cup anthem.
A power ballad is certainly a choice, but there we go.
Social media has been ablaze with displeasure at what Fifa have shown thus far over an hour deep into proceedings with an actual draw seemingly nowhere in sight.
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Fifa also handed out their first-ever peace award which, of course, went to US President Donald Trump.
The President was praised at length for his involvement in solving various conflicts around the world over the past year and in turn, Trump praised Infantino for record ticket sales.
At least Trump did acknowledge that is hardly the same thing or relative, but he almost charmingly carried on sneaking in praise for it anyway.
Kevin Hart is, of course, arguably the most famous comedian in the world.
He’s entertaining in just about any circumstances, but in a room filled with football‘s biggest names, his feigned knowledge of the game was not going down well.
Nor did the banter Klum tried to throw his way, either.
Infantino appeared on stage no less than three times before the draw actually got underway, taking centre stage as he tends to do.
The last time he got up to oversee the start of the draw, he actually said as he entered the stage “sorry, you won’t see me again after this, I promise.”
Once Mexico, Canada and the USA were first out of the pots, Infanino stopped to get a selfie with the leaders of those countries.
This is the first World Cup ever that will have 48 teams. It’s not unusual for the home nations to be in the first groups and partake in the opening games.
However, having Trump, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum join him to draw their own countries was fairly bizarre.
If you thought they were going to draw other teams after drawing the host nations, you’d be dead wrong.
Jason tweeted: “What am I even watching right now? I thought this was about football?”
Mexican football legend Hugo Sanchez was interviewed on the floor before cutting back to Kevin Hart on the stage referring to himself as America’s “biggest soccer dad”.
He then introduced another musical performance, this time from the legendary Lauryn Hill who also introduced her son, Marley.
More interviews on the floor followed before another cringe idea from Fifa came to light.
Infantino was at it again, this time in a pre-recorded video with Rio Ferdinand who will conduct the draw. Matthew McConaughey also phoned to give some advice, along with Salma Hayek, too.
It’s safe to say Rio won’t be winning any Oscars.
The Manchester United legend then featured in another video with some children explaining exactly how the draw is going to work.
Once we got past all of that, we were introduced to a bunch of sporting icons that will actually handle the draw.
Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, Aaron Judge, Tom Brady and Shaquille O’Neal, the latter of whom had a funny moment next to Hart, who is almost two whole feet smaller than him.