Tag: Infantino, Gianni

Ceferin’s UEFA Term Limits Fight Renews Debate on Presidential Power

The new president of European soccer’s governing body settled into a chair in his glass-walled office in Switzerland, glanced out at the sweeping views of Lake Geneva and insisted he would not be there long enough to get comfortable. It was 2017, soccer was still emerging from its greatest scandal and Aleksander Ceferin, only a […]

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FIFA Convictions Imperiled by Questions of U.S. Overreach

Nearly a decade after police officers marched world soccer officials out of a luxury hotel in Zurich at dawn, revealing a corruption scandal that shook the world’s most popular sport, the case is at risk of falling apart. The dramatic turnabout comes over questions of whether American prosecutors overreached by applying U.S. law to a […]

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How FIFA Handed Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup

As the world reeled from the coronavirus crisis in the fall of 2020, the president of soccer’s global governing body, Gianni Infantino, headed to Rome for an audience with Italy’s prime minister. Wearing masks and bumping elbows, Mr. Infantino, the president of FIFA, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, greeted each other in front of […]

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How FIFA Handed Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup

As the world reeled from the coronavirus crisis in the fall of 2020, the president of soccer’s global governing body, Gianni Infantino, headed to Rome for an audience with Italy’s prime minister. Wearing masks and bumping elbows, Mr. Infantino, the president of FIFA, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, greeted each other in front of […]

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Liverpool, V.A.R. and the Problem With Process

There are very few coherent sentences in what will, in time, doubtless come to be known as the Luis Díaz Tape, a sort of Premier League equivalent to the Zapruder film. The various protagonists communicate in clipped and meaningless phrases, any clarity sacrificed on the altar of self-important brevity. The tape lasts only two minutes, […]

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FIFA Will Host 2030 World Cup on Three Continents

Soccer’s World Cup will be staged in six countries on three continents in its centenary edition in 2030, an unexpected and complex alteration to its traditional format that was approved on Wednesday in a meeting of FIFA’s governing council. In the unusual arrangement, three South American countries — Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay — each will […]

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