Gianni Infantino’s attempt to force a handshake between representatives of the Israel Football Association and the Palestine football federation backfired spectacularly and instead caused a heated moment at the Fifa Congress in Vancouver.
The Fifa president, who opened the congress by saying football has the power to “unite the world”, called Jibril Rajoub, the president of the Palestinian football federation, and Basim Sheikh Suliman, the Israel FA vice-president, onto the stage and in front of the other delegates in the room.
