New FIFA president Gianni Infantino will visit the next two hosts of the World Cup, Russia and Qatar, next week, beginning with a two-day visit to the 2018 host, Russia. He will visit theMoscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, venue of the opening match and final. He then heads to Doha, where he will meet senior board members […]
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Police raid UEFA headquarters after Infantino revelations in Panama Papers
Just what new FIFA president Gianni Infantino needed. A day after revelations that as UEFA’s lawyer a decade ago he signed off on a television deal between UEFA and an Argentinemarketing agency whose bosses, Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, were indicted by U.S. authorities last May, Swiss police raided UEFA offices as part of “ongoing criminal […]
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What They're Saying: Gianni Infantino
“I am dismayed and will not accept that my integrity is being doubted by certain areas of the media.” –New FIFA president Gianni Infantino after documents leaked in thePanama Papers revealed that as UEFA’s attorney he signed a Champions League broadcasting contract in 2006 with an agency implicated last year in the FIFA bribery scandal. No […]
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Infantino: USA could host World Cup tomorrow
New FIFA president Gianni Infantino says he holds no debt to the United States for helping crack down on corruption in his ranks with the investigatory tools it has at its disposal, or for U.S.Soccer helping get him elected. Nonetheless, he said the United States could host the World Cup tomorrow. “The infrastructures are there […]
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What They're Saying: Gianni Infantino
“I was already first in the first round, it was already a good start. It is true U.S. Soccer supported me in the second round, and it was very helpful in the election process. Having said that, I havea great relation with Gulati and many other friends in U.S. Soccer since many years already. The […]
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FIFA wants its money back
FIFA filed suit to recover some of the more than $190 million alreadyforfeited by soccer and marketing officials — 12 former executive committee members — who have pleaded guilty in Federal court in the corruption case that mostly involves Concacaf and Conmebolcompetitions. FIFA wants the money — more than $28 million in total — that […]
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Infantino backs 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts
New FIFA president Gianni Infantino continued his efforts to put the tumultuous final years of the Sepp Blatter administration behind him by saying corruption allegations engulfingthe 2018 and 2022 World Cups are “a lot of speculation” backed up by “not a single fact.” “I was not part of of these processes in those times,” he […]
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Gulati is just where he needs to be
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) By all accounts, Sunil Gulati, president of U.S. Soccer, played a pivotal role in the election ofGianni Infantino as FIFA president. If you watched Fox Sports’ wall-to-wall coverage of Friday’s FIFA Congress in Zurich, you’d have watched via the “SunilCam”Gulati arguing projected vote totals on the executive committee stage with Sheikh […]
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Behind FIFA's urgency to make a World Cup 2026 bid decision
One of the first things to go when the FIFA crisis hit last year after the arrests of seven FIFA officials and Sepp Blatter‘s decision to step down was the World Cup 2026 hosting bid process,which was put on hold. One of the first things new FIFA president Gianni Infantino plans to do is relaunch […]
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Gulati or El Amrani for FIFA secretary general?
One of the first tasks of new FIFA president Gianni Infantino will to select a new secretary general, who in the new FIFA structure will hold even more power than predecessors JeromeValcke and Sepp Blatter. All that is known is Infantino does want a European. At an event earlier in February, Infantino suggested a possibility […]