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Alexander Abnos in New York

Fifa calls Uefa’s legal threat a ‘smear campaign’ in US federal filing

Aleksander Ceferin and Gianni Infantino stand on a balcony in dark suits, looking upward
Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Uefa president Alexander Ceferin pictured in 2024. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Attorneys representing Fifa have hit back at Uefa’s request for discovery in a US federal filing earlier this week. The lawyers called Uefa’s legal efforts “little more than press releases in further support of [a] smear campaign against Fifa and its leadership” and requested the judge assigned to the case dismiss the request.

The filing requests that Fifa US, a subsidiary business unit of Fifa, be permitted to officially opposite the request for discovery by 30 September.

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