Infantino
UEFA readies candidate to challenge Infantino as it waits for his answers to key FFE questions
October 30 – European governing body UEFA is inching closer to selecting a candidate to run against FIFA boss Gianni Infantino in the presidential elections. It’s understood that UEFA is waiting for the November 2 deadline it set FIFA to lapse before announcing a candidate to challenge Infantino. European officials remain confident of finding the […]
Welsh FA doubles down on call for Infantino to resign
October 28 – The Welsh FA and its chief executive Noel Mooney maintain that FIFA boss Gianni Infantino should resign following his World Cup sell-off plans. “The governance of the global game needs to be reviewed – the system is not working for us,” Mooney said. “We were the first country globally to say that […]
Bad hair day for Asians, good one for Infantino as AFC backs him for another term as FIFA president
October 23 – The Asian Football Confederation’s president Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa has pledged Asia’s support to embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino in his bid for re-election for a fourth term. The AFC had initially called for the removal of Infantino after his failure to explain his actions over the attempt to sell […]
FIFA Council: Ducking and diving Infantino roasted at meeting but refuses to answer integrity questions
October 16 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has survived a grilling over his much-maligned World Cup privatisation plans by the FIFA Council, cementing, for now, his position at the helm of the world federation. On Thursday, after months of global governance turmoil over the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) scheme, an embattled Infantino at last […]
UEFA’s reform proposals turn the screw on Infantino and FIFA’s governance
October 8 – Ahead of the FIFA Council meeting next Thursday in Zurich, UEFA’s member associations, meeting in Berlin yesterday (Thursday), have outlined a set of reform proposals that hit at the very heart of FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s leadership and FIFA’s basic governance. Following Infantino’s attempt to railroad through a sell off of FIFA’s […]
Swiss FA withdraws Infantino support; Football Leaks whistleblower calls him a ‘cancer on football’
October 2 – It was another bad day for FIFA president Gianni Infantino who lost both the support of the Swiss federation, the nation of his birth, and was hammered by Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto who called him a ‘cancer on football’. The withdrawal of Swiss support for Infantino is significant because as a […]
Ceferin’s lambasting of Infantino met with applause at European Football Clubs General Assembly
September 30 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has slammed FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, attacking the football supremo over the attempted World Cup sell-off, the Trump Peace Prize and the Balogun red card scandal. In a speech addressing European Football Clubs General Assembly in Copenhagen, Ceferin (pictured) reached for the story by Hans Christian Andersen to […]
Europe’s big leagues tell Infantino and FIFA they are ‘not fit for purpose’
September 25 – Four of Europe’s Big 5 leagues – the world’s biggest domestic club competitions – have piled more pressure on embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino telling him reform must go deeper than “surface-level”, and under Infantino’s leadership “football has suffered one of the biggest abuses of power in FIFA’s history.” The statement calls […]
English FA demands Infantino releases World Cup sell off and Balogun file, says FIFA’s own review can’t be trusted
September 17 – English FA chair Debbie Hewitt, a FIFA vice-president, has added her voice to the calls for more transparency from FIFA president Gianni Infantino regarding the planned sell-off of FIFA’s commercial rights into a private equity backed new business, FIFA Football Enterprise (FFE). Hewitt has written to FIFA president Gianni Infantino demanding FIFA […]
Analysis: Infantino continues to evade the ‘law’ – FIFA’s and the USA’s
September 14 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his legal team are still refusing to show any form of accountability to member associations, stakeholders or even the legal profession over his attempt to sell all FIFA’s competition rights to a private equity backed new business – FIFA Forward Enterprises (FFE). In the US Infantino has failed […]