FIFA Congress Reveals Morocco's Growing Influence and Infantino's Strategic Shifts

A money machine and Morocco on the rise: what we learned from Fifa congress

Gianni Infantino bungled one political move in Canada while also making it clear Europe is on the fringes of his thinking Gianni Infantino’s final words of the 76th Fifa congress were the least surprising of an otherwise intriguing week. “I wanted you to be the first to know,” the Fifa president said with a straight face of his decision to seek re-election next year, which has been an open secret since before his previous victory in 2023, as Fifa’s statutes were altered to permit such an outc...

By Matt Hughes