🔶 Infantino’s retreat and simultaneous attack on critics

Giani Infantino has apparently managed, during a critical meeting in Morocco, to largely defuse the tensions created among FIFA’s top managers. Infantino and Matthias Grafström, FIFA’s secretary general, in a letter addressed to the deputy chair of the president and members of FIFA’s council on the evening of Wednesday, August 5, acknowledged mistakes related to a failed deal with an investor and promised that such errors would not be repeated. The letter has also been provided to the media.

Previously, Grafström had unexpectedly distanced himself from him in an internal letter without naming Infantino. It is said that in that letter, among other things, he wrote: “A sad and regrettable course of events took place which, fortunately, ended with the complete abandonment of the private-sector project.”