With the World Cup over, I promised myself a few weeks of not thinking about Gianni Infantino. It was a plan that filled me with a sense of joy and relief, not unlike the feeling you get when you leave the portable toilet at a music festival. Sadly, the grubby little man had other ideas. First came his social media sermon advising critics to “meditate,
Successfully stopping Gianni Infantino's FIFA plan to sell World Cup profits to private investors was the first half of a high-stakes game in global football politics. The second half kicked off Saturday with what seemed a clear aim of ending Infantino's decade-long presidency. "No option should be off the table," said European soccer body UEFA, whose
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Saturday he had scrapped a plan to allow private investment in the World Cup following fierce backlash from football officials worldwide. "Our purpose has always been -- and will always be -- to unite and improve," Infantino said in a statement. "As a result, this proposal will not proceed." FIFA, world football's
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning his divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after receiving pushback from all corners of the soccer world. Infantino's decision came after his senior adviser who sat on a White House panel resigned and Asia's soccer body joined Europe and North America in opposing it. "Having listened
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) joined UEFA and CONCACAF in condemning world football’s governing body FIFA’s proposed private investment plan, saying on Friday they were alarmed it had reached the point a “World Cup boycott has entered public discourse”. A damaging blow to FIFA president Gianni Infantino came with the later resignation of a
