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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Infantino awaits his ‘big bang’ as Club World Cup refuses to slide away

Borussia Dortmund v CF Monterrey in Atlanta
Did somebody say drone shot? Photograph: Madison Higham/Fifa/Getty Images

ROLL WITH IT

Like Dr John Hammond and his scientists in Jurassic Park, Gianni Infantino and his fawning Fifa lickspittles have spent recent years so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should. The upshot is that a preposterously lucrative tournament described by its creator as “a big bang” has been crowbarred into an already jam-packed calendar. And the largesse of its in-no-way unethically sourced prize-money for those participating now threatens to destroy several already under-threat footballing ecosystems around the world.

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