“It’s easy to say, ‘You know what? Ten men, 2–0 down… let’s wait for another night.’ But that’s not what you want. You want to win. You want to show who you are.”
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🚨🇳🇱 Manchester City made contact with Cody Gakpo’s camp today, as @MounirBoualin reported.
Talks have started while Tottenham remain in active discussions for Cody and with personal terms in place.
Race on.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino held talks with private investors about an Under-15 'World Cup' event for all 211 member nations inspired by baseball's Little League World Series.
One proposal to FIFA — backed by Eldridge Industries, chaired by Todd Boehly — involved hosting the event at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, with options to hold the opening and closing ceremonies at Disney theme parks.
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Uefa paid off an alleged mistress of Gianni Infantino while he was its general secretary, The Telegraph can disclose.
The woman received a six-figure sum after the alleged relationship with Mr Infantino while he was a top official at European football’s governing body.
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- WC host cities waiting for their payments.
- Clubs from CWC waiting for their payments.
-Now this. Infantino’s FIFA isn’t even paying out the millions he owes smaller nations… but I bet his 2.75M bonus got paid on time.
Get him gone.
🚨 Sri Lanka praises Infantino's 'inclusive leadership' after FIFA revolt forces retreat
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka has thanked Gianni Infantino for withdrawing his $ 20bn plan to sell a stake in FIFA's commercial operations, praising the FIFA president's "willingness to listen to the views and concerns of Member Associations".
In reality, Infantino abandoned the scheme within 72 hours only after all 55 UEFA associations threatened to boycott FIFA competitions, CONCACAF and the AFC complained they had never been consulted, and his own senior adviser resigned calling it a bad deal for football.
Colombo's statement meanwhile reaffirms support for Infantino just as other associations reconsider their endorsements of his presidency. The FFSL was itself suspended by FIFA in 2023 over political interference.
There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.
BREAKING: Arsene Wenger says he was “not involved” or aware of World Cup share off plans
The decision to withdraw the project was absolutely necessary and beyond question” and calls for “FIFA that serves our game with commitment, transparency, and integrity.
Why Chelsea changed their transfer policy and embraced ‘golden oldies’:
🔵 Rosenior voiced concerns on maturity
🔵 PSG meltdown was red flag
🔵 Alonso wanted ‘mentality monsters’
🔵 Henderson & Welbeck leaders off the field
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