It’s good to laugh: For the powerful FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, the World Cup in Qatar was a success worth billions, despite all the controversy.
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More football, more money, more Gianni: Gianni Infantino stretches the law, distorts reality and the DFB plays along. A single sentence unmasks the powerful FIFA boss.
Et is just one sentence, but it actually says everything you need to know about Gianni Infantino, the President of the World Football Association FIFA. How he ignores democratic processes. How he interprets law in his interest. How he controls those who could control it.
Friday noon in Doha, Qatar. Gianni Infantino, Swiss, who has been FIFA President since February 2016, is sitting on the podium with the microphone in the Main Media Center. In the fourth week of the World Cup, he will be answering questions from journalists for the second time. Before that, he announces what the FIFA Council, the association’s most important decision-making body, agreed on this morning. And when he’s almost done with that, Infantino says the sentence that says it all:
