Human rights activist group FairSquare have made an official complaint to FIFA, alleging that president Gianni Infantino broke his own organization’s pledge for political neutrality with comments about U.S. president Donald Trump.
Infantino and Trump have done little to play down their ever-strengthening alliance. “You’ve been my great friend, and it’s an honor,” the leader of United States told Infantino on one of his numerous visits to the White House across both his presidential terms. Trump has also hailed his FIFA counterpart as “sort of the king of soccer,” but it is the comments Infantino has made which have come under scrutiny.
