Gianni Infantino

English football has no plans for forfeits over racist abuse despite Infantino plea

English football has no plans to upgrade protocols dealing with racist abuse, despite Fifa’s president calling for an automatic forfeit of games by teams whose fans cause an abandonment with racist behaviour

Paul MacInnes

22, Jan, 2024 @6:29 PM

The Guardian view on the Qatar World Cup one year on: a shadowed legacy | Editorial

Editorial: Impressive rhetoric and limited reform did not change the game for vulnerable and exploited migrant workers

Editorial

19, Dec, 2023 @7:00 PM

Meet the AI-created football expert aiming to teach Infantino a lesson

‘Hope Sogni’ is launching a hypothetical Fifa election campaign to represent women and show game could be run differently

Suzanne Wrack

22, Nov, 2023 @8:00 AM

Clownish populist Infantino is complicit in Saudi Arabia’s colonisation of football | Jonathan Wilson

Gulf state’s land grab for 2034 World Cup is yet another example of cartoonish Fifa overlord putting self-interest before football

Jonathan Wilson

04, Nov, 2023 @8:00 PM

Saudi Arabia’s clear path to World Cup shows power of Fifa and Infantino | Paul MacInnes

Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 tournament has quickly become a certainty, even as the Gulf state’s wider ambitions remain unclear

Paul MacInnes

31, Oct, 2023 @8:45 PM

Infantino congratulates Malian football federation president despite arrest

Gianni Infantino has congratulated Mamatou Touré on re-election as president of the Malian football federation despite being accused of embezzling public funds

Exclusive by Ed Aarons and Romain Molina

07, Sep, 2023 @11:00 AM

Women beat men in World Cup punditry | Brief letters

Brief letters: Pointless wittering | Pay equality | Pushing the right doors | Where are the Habs?

20, Aug, 2023 @3:46 PM

Lionesses, feeling let down by men? Don’t worry, Gianni Infantino will explain how to fight those battles | Marina Hyde

While the Fifa boss pontificates to ‘all the women’ that they should ‘just push the doors’, we suggest he does his actual job, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde

18, Aug, 2023 @1:49 PM

Australian police rejected Fifa requests for Gianni Infantino to be escorted during World Cup travel

Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria police turned down request for escort for Fifa president, which is normally reserved for foreign heads of state

Christopher Knaus

18, Aug, 2023 @7:49 AM

Women’s World Cup: NZ refused request for police escort for Fifa president Gianni Infantino

Fifa chief was rejected for motorcade because it is ‘against standard operating procedures’, say New Zealand police

Tess McClure in Auckland

17, Aug, 2023 @2:15 AM

Does football need Fifa? Breakaway threat may test Infantino’s grip on global game | Jonathan Wilson

Leader of the game’s world governing body would be forced to rethink chasing votes and cash if Uefa and Conmebol unite

Jonathan Wilson

08, Jul, 2023 @7:00 PM

World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages

Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wages

Pete Pattisson in Doha, Imran Mukhtar in Islamabad and Praveen Yadav in Kathmandu

26, May, 2023 @4:00 AM

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