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Marina Hyde

Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you?

Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump at the World Cup final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on 19 July 2026.
Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump at the World Cup final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on 19 July 2026. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

I hope you have found time to enjoy Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s 15-page Instagram meltdown about his World Cup. The last time I saw this many defiant words, they were inked on someone sitting cross-legged on the floor of a Salvadoran supermax prison.

Infantino has been clapping back at his haters – putting them on blast, in the parlance of our times – and on this evidence seems mesmerisingly close to picking out a Chicano script font and getting STILL I RISE needled across his corporate clavicles. Right next to the ones reading THROUGH THE FIRE, UNBREAKABLE and BUILT DIFFERENT.

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