The site of Fifa’s new offices in New York feels particularly fitting. Trump Tower’s previous residents include one with a track record of declaring his ventures a glorious triumph, regardless of evidence to the contrary, and of proclaiming victory before something is over.
And so it was, before the Club World Cup final and in Trump Tower, when, borrowing from his landlord’s playbook, Gianni Infantino said: “We can say definitely that this Fifa Club World Cup has been a huge, huge, huge success.”
