Less than four months into the job, new FIFA president Gianni Infantino is under fire. FIFA’s ethics committee was forced to issue a statement that there are no formal proceedings againstInfantino after German newspaper Die Welt reported that he was facing a provisionalban for unethical conduct, specifically suggesting Infantino had ordered FIFA staff members to […]
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USA-Mexico joint 2026 World Cup bid? Not so fast!
FIFA’s release of an outline for a four-step process to be used for the 2026 World Cupbid process prompted speculation about just who might bid. FIFA president Gianni Infantino went one step further and suggested he’d be open to joint bids, which in turn led to talk of a bid bytwo or more of Concacaf’s […]
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Infantino says his salary has not been decided
FIFA president Gianni Infantino says he’ll let everyone know how much he is being paid when he finds out himself. His salary has still not been confirmed three months after he took office andwas the subject of reports linking the resignation of Domenico Scala, FIFA’saudit and compliance committee chairman and in-house reform champion, to a […]
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FIFA in crisis again: Reform message takes a beating
One may never know the true reasons for the resignation of Domenico Scala, FIFA’s audit and compliance committee chairman and in-house reform champion, but it had a devastating effect on newFIFA president Gianni Infantino‘s reform narrative. Instead of ending its first Congress under Infantino on a positive note, FIFA was forced to scramble and defend […]
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USA learns first details of World Cup 2026 bid process
In a move to take some of the politics out of the World Cup host selection process that ended up with Qatar, politically popular but technically flawed, as the host of the 2022 World Cup, FIFAannounced a four-step bid process that will end in May 2020 with its members selecting the host of the 2026 […]
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Infantino: FIFA will monitor Qatar 2022 stadium working conditions
In a move to ease fears of human rights abuses in World Cup 2022 host Qatar, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said an independent committee will be set up to monitor working conditions at venuesunder construction. Amnesty International, which has accused Qatar of using forced labor, termed them “steps in the right direction.”
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Infantino off to Russia and Qatar next week
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 […]