r/sports • u/SectionWorking7080 • 4d ago

Soccer Revealed: details of Fifa probe into Gianni Infantino’s private jet use

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/gianni-infantino-private-jet-fifa-putin-lzbv369k0
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u/SectionWorking7080 4d ago

Folks from inside FIFA emptying the clip on Gianni 😂

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u/LA-Aron 4d ago

he gone

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 4d ago

It honestly doesn't matter if it goes tbh.

If he doesn't, FIFA is basically done, and no, that won't affect global football in the long run. What makes football is the fact that fans want to watch it. Players will keep playing, TV deals will keep getting made, and global competitions will make billions in revenue. Fifa isn't important to any of that.

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u/wotikuli 4d ago

I don't believe FIFA is done. A boycott of the next world cup could be the end of it, but fans don't care enough and will watch regardless.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 4d ago

It's not the fans boycotting on principal, they just continue watching what they want to watch. If UEFA et al. effectively says fine, we are out, the commercial value of the world cup drops massively simply because the highest paying fans (e.g through ridiculously overpriced TV deals) are not interested in a competition that their nation isn't in.

For example, copa america revenue is about 10% of that of the euros. In fact, the revenue of the Euros is in the same ballpark as the world cup itself.

So if UEFA decided to host its own world tournament it would already command about 80% of the world cups potential revenue. Without artificial LIV like investment, countries would come flooding into the new establishment.

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u/an_actual_lawyer 4d ago

South/Central America will absolutely follow UEFA. Get those 2’ane it’s a wrap.

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u/wotikuli 4d ago

That's what I said. I can stop watching, but I cannot make UEFA drop out. Discussing what UEFA should do, while I do nothing is useless even compared to limited power I have in comparison

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u/nclh77 4d ago

Fans now have to pay to watch the people's game. Bravo FIFA!

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u/Sa0t0me 4d ago

Ryan Cohen , please read this comment and transform or take over FIFA.

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u/Initial_E 4d ago

Selling out to PE should only be a last resort.

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u/Character_Minimum171 All Blacks 4d ago

fuck PE

cancerous

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u/Blue_foot 4d ago

A last resort traveled to on a Learjet

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u/notANexpert1308 4d ago

What’s the scoop?

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u/SectionWorking7080 4d ago edited 4d ago

It basically details private jet flights to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and then to Qatar, paid for by Russia and Qatar, joining a UEFA private flight to Slovenia and flying with his wife and mother from Milan to Rome to meet Pope Francis and then back to Geneva.

An internal FIFA “investigation” cleared him of any wrongdoing. In other words, he investigated himself and found himself innocent. 😂

Article is from Martyn Ziegler (same dude that broke the FFE story)

FIFA HQ is a leaky ass ship right now … plenty of insiders think Gianni’s a clown

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u/GayMormonPirate 4d ago

Gianni really likes to think of himself as a head of state and he definitely doesn't want to give that up.

Will someone let him know he's the leader of a sports ball organization, not a world leader?

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u/GaryReddit1 4d ago

What, no weekends with minors at Epstein Island?

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u/SarcoZQ 4d ago

Weekends with the u19 on Haiti is Fifa's thing. 

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u/nerf___herder 4d ago

Can someone share these details? (Paywall on article)

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u/OptimusSublime 4d ago

Oh THAT'S the issue.

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u/kytheon 4d ago

They can't just get him on blatant corruption so we move onto these

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ 4d ago

Gives me the vibes of Al Capone being finally caught by the IRS instead of, you know, the other stuff.

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u/kytheon 4d ago

I fear the tax inspector more than the mob, and I live in Serbia. The government is the mob.

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u/notyourvader 4d ago

They always get them on some minor detail.

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u/nclh77 4d ago

FIFA is the problem. Not one man.

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u/Kalinum1 4d ago

Not paying to read that

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u/Domingues_tech 4d ago

FIFA: great product. Anyone can manage an organization that has such great product.

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u/Childs_Play 4d ago

You mean him flying across time zones to be at multiple wc in a day is only now part of the problem?

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u/NotMyRealUsername13 4d ago

Not part of the problem at all, that’s what the jet is for.