Gianni Infantino, FIFA President “Sport and football can indeed try to unite people a bit. (Nelson) Mandela said that sport has the power to change the world. I don’t know if that’s the case, but if someone like Mandela said something like that, then maybe it matters.
And the fact that we are coming out of a pandemic where we have confined ourselves, and that at the moment we are in a situation where there is a war in Europe, terrible conflicts in other parts of the world, we must not don’t forget that either. Having opportunities to bring people together should be opportunities that we should not waste on society in the future. So I think the world needs a moment of, I don’t know what to call it, normalcy and coming together. »
