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‘The emperor is naked’: Uefa president Ceferin takes new swipe at Infantino

UEFA Champions League Fifa Aleksander Ceferin Gianni Infantino Nasser AlKhelaifi FFE Hans Christian Andersen Football EFC

Gianni Infantino pumps his fist while Aleksander Ceferinin watches him at the Champions League final in Istanbul — The Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferinin (right), has launched a scathing takedown of Gianni Infantino’s conduct. Photograph: Mark Pain/Alamy

The Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, has attacked his embattled Fifa counterpart Gianni Infantino in a scathing takedown of the failed Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) project and other recent scandals, saying “the emperor is naked” and declaring “it is time to say ‘enough’”.

In a pointed address to the European Football Clubs (EFC) general assembly, Ceferin did not mention Infantino by name but made clear his view that Fifa’s leadership must change. He drew on the event’s location, Copenhagen, to make a comparison to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes in assessing Infantino’s conduct, making clear reference to the peace prize awarded to Donald Trump and last summer’s Folarin Balogun affair along with the FFE scheme.

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