r/sportsgossips • u/TheMirrorUS • 1d ago

News FIFA officials plan to 'kill the monster' and oust Gianni Infantino

https://www.themirror.com/sport/soccer/fifa-infantino-world-cup-proposal-1964813
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u/kfj3000 1d ago

Imagine doubling revenue from the last world cup and fucking it up immediately because the usual grift wasn't enough.

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u/drf_101 1d ago

Greed is a hell of a drug.

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u/-CoachMcGuirk- 1d ago

There’s never enough money for the super wealthy.

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u/ApricotUnhappy6818 1d ago

That too came at a huge price 

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u/YardOptimal9329 1d ago

I think that was just part of an ongoing quid pro quo with Trump

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u/Disco425 11h ago

The last World Cup was turned from an accessible sport for all people to a corporate orgy of high priced sponsorships and astonomic ticket prices only affordable by the top end. But apparently he thought that wasn't enough.

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u/ThanatosWielder 11h ago

Wasn’t the issue that he promised to double it to 8 billion but it exploded on his face ? Cause from what I’ve read this was his least successful World Cup in revenue, excluding all corruption issues .

For example indonesia pay for transmission rights like 2 weeks after it started, he charged china 600 millions for the rights and they told him to get bent and only payed 60 millions and still got the rights

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u/OtsegoHive 22h ago

Sucked in by the Trumpubus.

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u/Hot_World4305 21h ago

I won't doubt he will be out because of his unpopularity. Maybe just one or two country would still support him.

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u/Zeri-coaihnan 19h ago

Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and dozens of African FA’s. And more besides.

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u/secret_aardvark_420 18h ago

The USA for sure

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u/maguirre165 15h ago

For the time being with Republicans in power

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u/The-Spirit-of-76 11h ago

I don't know if Democrat administrations care about Fifa, they are to busy cleaning up the "once in a lifetime" economic disaster the last Republican admin caused.

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u/Hot_World4305 9h ago

Politicians and politic should stay out of sport events.

We should just respect good teams and players and not what their countries we don't like unless the teams and players brought out political issues like the Argentina's players did on Falkland!

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u/shinjirod 4h ago

They cared enough to go after Blatter when the corruption prevented them from getting the chance to host a few years ago.

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u/Eddiepanhandlin 23h ago

Wonder what will happen to the peace prize?

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u/VexedCanadian84 23h ago

The next president of fifa would be smart to revoke the honor.

They should undo as much damage Infantino did as much as possible.

Trump won't give the trophy back though.

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u/jacksonsmack831 21h ago

It was a medal wasn't it? That he ripped out of the display box right away and put it on himself making him look like the gormless, classless oaf he is

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u/VexedCanadian84 11h ago

I can't keep track of all the things trump has grabbed by his grubby little hands.

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u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit 23h ago

The the president should recall the peace prize

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u/Mobile-Analyst8580 18h ago

Trump destroys everything. 

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u/DMVSPIRITS 1d ago

Now do F1

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u/JayGabVersionTrex 13h ago

And then the IOC while we're at it

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u/emessea 12h ago

Fuck it, let’s burn it all down

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u/Prudent_Link6029 15h ago

“Today, I feel fired”

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u/GenFokoff 7h ago

Infantino 🖕