Not exactly published by a bastion of sports journalism but all the critique rings true, and it doesn't come anywhere near covering all his problems. His brown-nosing and shameless whoring of the...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has, as expected, awarded US President Donald Trump with the "Peace Prize." The same peacemaker who literally renamed his Defense Department to a War Department.
Was anyone surprised? No - because Infantino has been consistently working to become the worst FIFA president in history.
He talks about "sport without politics," yet he has politicized FIFA to the maximum
"FIFA cannot solve geopolitical problems," said Gianni Infantino when asked about the situation in Gaza. Similarly, he spoke about "sport without politics" in connection with Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
He also responded before the 2022 World Cup to calls to exclude Iran due to the brutal suppression of protests:
"We know that football does not exist in a vacuum, and we are as aware as you that there are many political challenges and difficulties worldwide. But please do not allow football to be dragged into any ideological or political confrontation."
Yet, Infantino drags football himself into every political story that interests him. His admiration for Putin was already evident in 2018. Yes, he inherited it, even though he himself had become "great" and organized the "best World Cup in history" after Russia started the war against Ukraine. But none of that mattered because he awarded the FIFA president a medal.
Not exactly published by a bastion of sports journalism but all the critique rings true, and it doesn't come anywhere near covering all his problems. His brown-nosing and shameless whoring of the sport is embarrassing, and it saddens me how there seems to be no serious objections being raised, especially when Infantino's rise to the presidency was supposedly to clean up FIFA's image after all of the shenanigans in the Sepp Blatter era.
When I was a kid my dad always used to say FIFA was the biggest mafia in the world, and the decades haven't proven him wrong.
Just the fact that this piece of shit has managed to be even more of an asshole than Blatter in record time is baffling and quite saddening. I’m re-watching a lot of 80’s and 90s action movies...
Just the fact that this piece of shit has managed to be even more of an asshole than Blatter in record time is baffling and quite saddening.
I’m re-watching a lot of 80’s and 90s action movies right now because of nostalgia and general comfort watching and these cartoonishly over the top villains are seriously reality now. I can’t believe it.
Not exactly published by a bastion of sports journalism but all the critique rings true, and it doesn't come anywhere near covering all his problems. His brown-nosing and shameless whoring of the sport is embarrassing, and it saddens me how there seems to be no serious objections being raised, especially when Infantino's rise to the presidency was supposedly to clean up FIFA's image after all of the shenanigans in the Sepp Blatter era.
When I was a kid my dad always used to say FIFA was the biggest mafia in the world, and the decades haven't proven him wrong.
Just the fact that this piece of shit has managed to be even more of an asshole than Blatter in record time is baffling and quite saddening.
I’m re-watching a lot of 80’s and 90s action movies right now because of nostalgia and general comfort watching and these cartoonishly over the top villains are seriously reality now. I can’t believe it.