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Chris Nee

FIFA president Gianni Infantino misreads the room on a global scale with crass celebration of World Cup 2026 'excitement'

Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino.

With all the tragedy being inflicted on normal people in a warring world they didn't want, one might think football might be best served by some degree of neutrality, or decorum at the very least.

Gianni Infantino apparently doesn't see it that way. Having been manoeuvred into a position of allyship with President of the United States of America Donald Trump, the 'sort of king of football' is now unable to remove FIFA, the governing body of which his is president, from the shadow of a geopolitical earthquake that actually means something.

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