The Swiss Football Association (SFV) confirmed on Wednesday that it has ended its backing for Gianni Infantino’s campaign to secure another term as Fifa president. At a meeting this week, the executive committee overturned its earlier endorsement of Infantino, who was born in Brig, an Alpine community in the southern Swiss canton of Valais. The […]
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Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has branded Gianni Infantino’s failed proposal to sell interests in the World Cup as “more harmful than the Super League project”. He also warned the under-pressure Fifa leader that he is likely to face a challenger if he seeks another term next March. Ceferin has spearheaded Uefa’s united opposition to the […]
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Gianni Infantino responded to questions about his abandoned plan to sell stakes in World Cup competitions by telling a journalist: “I’ll see you at the hairdressers.” James Matthews confronted the Fifa president outside a hotel in the Dominican Republic, asking why he had remained in his position despite growing demands from across football for his […]
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Kevin Lamour, the chief operating officer of FIFA, has been dismissed after publicly opposing Gianni Infantino’s unsuccessful proposal to sell stakes in World Cup-related assets to private investors. The departure marks a major development within football’s troubled global governing organisation. Lamour leaves less than two years after arriving from UEFA. He strongly objected to Infantino’s […]
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Gianni Infantino’s critics are joining forces to develop a new model for governing global football, aiming to replace what they see as a patronage-based structure introduced after he succeeded Sepp Blatter as president a decade ago. Infantino has not responded to repeated demands from Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation for an independent examination […]
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Football Australia has added its voice to mounting international pressure on Fifa president Gianni Infantino, demanding a “clear and credible response” to the turmoil affecting the global game. However, the organisation did not directly seek Infantino’s resignation. In a three-paragraph statement released on Tuesday, it supported the Asian Football Confederation shortly after that body issued […]
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Friday 7 August Support for Infantino begins to emerge, with Mexico and Argentina joining Africa’s football governing body in backing him. However, opposition also grows as Norway’s football association demands his resignation and files a new ethics complaint covering several issues, including alleged violations of Fifa’s rules on political neutrality. Infantino then travels to Colombia […]
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There are long periods when history appears motionless, followed by brief moments when years of change unfold at once and those in power suddenly become vulnerable. Less than two weeks ago, Gianni Infantino was celebrating on Instagram and condemning critics “behind their pens and papers, behind their screens spreading hate and false rumours” for questioning […]
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Uefa has reinforced its warning that it could withdraw from Fifa-organised competitions, while confirming that it no longer has confidence in Gianni Infantino’s leadership. European football’s governing body said Wednesday evening’s public show of support for Infantino “changes nothing”. It added that it has received no firm guarantees that a crisis like the one seen […]
Continue ReadingGianni Infantino’s standing suffered another setback after Fifa secretary general Mattias Grafström, his second-in-command, described the abandoned private investment proposal for the World Cup as a “regrettable and deeply troubling sequence of events”. Further signs that senior figures within Fifa are distancing themselves from Infantino and the unsuccessful initiative emerged on Tuesday morning, when Arsène […]
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