After decades of negative media coverage about FIFA’s corruption, nepotism and secrecy, its President Gianni Infantinohas hit upon a novel way of looking at the governing body’slatest money-driven schemes. Everything’s good! Reacting to his own sparrow-brained proposal to expand the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 teams, he gushed last week, “If it happens — fantastic.If it doesn’t happen — fantastic also.”
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