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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Butler

Home of the brave: Fifa’s new office at Trump Tower seems like the perfect fit

Gianni Infantino and Eric Trump pose at the opening of the Fifa offices in New York.
Nightmare blunt rotation: Gianni Infantino (left) and Eric Trump, son of Donald. Photograph: Ira L Black/Fifa/Getty Images

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Fifa has long promised to grow the game in the USA USA USA, and what better place to do that than by opening a new office at the original venue of the 1991 Rumblelows League Cup fifth-round draw, Trump Tower in New York City. With its former leader recently involved in (and acquitted from) a corruption case, and accusations of the current president pursuing “private interests” over his responsibilities, what better place for Fifa to shake off the image as a cash-chasing, power-hungry behemoth than in the actual residence of the current USA president?

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