Bob Mackin
FIFA, which projects US$13 billion in 2023 to 2026 revenue, is looking for 3,000 people to volunteer their time to work in Vancouver during the 2026 World Cup.
theBreaker.news has confirmed that the head of Vancouver’s FIFA 26 secretariat billed taxpayers $128,500 during four of the first five months of 2025.
Documents obtained under freedom of information show that Jessie Adcock invoiced Vancouver city hall $39,300 in January, $37,500 in March, $33,750 in April and $18,000 in May.
FIFA vice-president Vic Montagliani (left), FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Vancouver host city committee lead Jessie Adcock, Oct. 15, 2024 at B.C. Place Stadium (FIFA)
Neither Adcock nor Natasha Qereshniku, the communications lead for the FIFA secretariat, responded to explain the relatively smaller amount of Adcock’s May invoice.
City’s $300/hour organizer
Through her company, Adcock Capital and Advisory Services, Adcock received $469,804 for all of 2024. That is higher than the $397,354 published in the April-released, annual statement of financial information. Qereshniku previously explained that payments for November and December 2024 were made after the 2024 accounting close-out.
Adcock’s contract was originally set Jan. 8, 2024 at $300-per-hour for an average 25 hours a week and a $270,000 cap through October 2024. However, the deal was quietly extended in July 2024 through the end of the World Cup wind-down phase in September 2026.
Who is Adcock
She took a break in 2015 to run unsuccessfully for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in the Port Moody-Coquitlam riding. She joined the federal bureaucracy in 2022. First as CEO of the Canadian Digital Service, then as senior assistant deputy minister of the Treasury Board Secretariat and senior advisor to the chief information officer.
More big bucks
FIFA paid president Gianni Infantino almost US$3 million in 2024.
West Vancouverite Victor Montagliani is a vice-president of FIFA, by virtue of being president of CONCACAF. FIFA’s North and Central American and Caribbean zone reported paying Montagliani almost US$2.9 million in 2023
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