Premier League in joint call for FIFA reform amid Infantino crisis
Europe’s top leagues want stronger checks and stakeholder power after FIFA dropped a private investment plan that triggered a global backlash.
- On Thursday, FIFA President Gianni Infantino pledged a new culture of openness, offering an independent review of how the organization runs and makes decisions following governance criticism.
- This shift follows a deep rift caused by Infantino's now-dropped $4.2 billion World Cup sell-off plan, which provoked the soccer body's biggest crisis since 2015 anti-corruption arrests that led to trials in New York.
- Opposition to Infantino's leadership style, which critics describe as an "executive one-man leadership" approach, has been led by European football leader Aleksander Ceferin, North America's Victor Montagliani, and Asia's Sheikh Salman.
- Infantino will chair an October 15 meeting of the 37-member FIFA Council, where members will be asked to approve consultation on strengthening the organization's decision-making processes.
- Ahead of a March 18 vote in Morocco, Infantino faces an election challenge while insisting he remains committed to listening to soccer officials and growing the game globally.
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The English Premier League, the Spanish La Liga, the German Bundesliga and the Italian Serie A came out with the invitation to radically revise the system of work of the International Football Federation (FIFA). The president of the organization recently asked to sell investors a share of the rights to the peace championship. YOU ARE INTERESTED Six football associations announced the loss of confidence in the president of FIFA Infantino. Detai…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Young-ho = The four major European leagues, including the English Premier League (EPL), [are] FIFA President Gianni Infantino's...
Statements were made by England, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The leaders of the Premier League and three other leading European leagues called in a statement for reforms in the management of the International Football Federation (FIFA), which puts the president of that organization Gianni Infantino under even more pressure after the failed plan to sell a share of the World Cup profits.
Four of Europe's most powerful national leagues have joined forces to demand a complete overhaul of the way FIFA is governed. The Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A have issued a joint statement calling for far-reaching reforms to FIFA's governance, expressing strong concerns about the organisation's leadership under president Gianni Infantino. The statement comes after controversy over the FIFA Forward Enterprise project, a FIFA in…
From England, Spain, Italy and Germany demand a profound transformation in the management of global football. Among their demands are the separation between the commercial and regulatory functions of the governing body, as well as a real representation of national tournaments in decision-making.
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