“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 […]
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Friday was a good day for soccer
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) FIFA needed a day like Friday. The FIFA Congress overwhelmingly passed sweeping reforms and it elected 45-year-old Swiss lawyer Gianni Infantino as its new president. Passage of the reforms doesn’t mean the culture of the organization will change overnight or that they will eliminate corruption, but they are a big step […]
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USA switched to Infantino in second round
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati confirmed that his organization switched its vote from Prince Ali of Jordan to Gianni Infantino in the second round when Infantino pulledaway from Sheikh Salman of Bahrain to win the election for FIFA president. “We decided to support Prince Ali last night and made that public. I met with Gianni […]
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Infantino gets praise from Russia
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko, a member of the FIFA executive committee, praised Gianni Infantino’s election as FIFA president, saying it would help soccer’s world governing bodyovercome its problems. “I am happy,” Mutko was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying after Infantino won Friday’s vote in Zurich. We supported him from the start. I […]