UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
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#2Infantino clearly wants to see FIFA making billions so he and many others can pocket millions legally. But the only way for this to happen in a non-corrupt way, given that FIFA is non-profit and therefore requires a lot of questionable operations, is to turn FIFA into a business like NFL / MLS.
The problem with that is that it then it is no longer a sport, rather a... business.
UEFA letter is spot on.
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#4It seems like Europe, yet again, have to stand up for ethics, morality and try to deflect corruption. It's so tiresome.
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#5It's crazy that as despicable an organization as UEFA is, they're still far better than FIFA.
Infantino has been a disgrace, I hope they manage to get rid of him, but I have very little hope.
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#6The FA's worldwide don't need FIFA, they can set up a new world tournament. You will get a lot of poor nations who stick with FIFA for the cash but at the end of the day without European teams the world cup and FIFA will have minimal value. 5 of the last 6 world cup winners were european and it will only get more biased towards Europe. Argentina post Messi have no chance, and Brazil are the furthest away from winning than they ever have been.
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#7It seems like Europe, yet again, have to stand up for ethics, morality and try to deflect corruption. It's so tiresome.
It’s standing up for football. Far more important.
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#8This is so highly unusual even sports-allergic HN wants to discuss it. It's like a religious schism in some sense.
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#9I think the mandatory ad break introduced by FIFA at the World Cup was also too much for most football people, not just fans. Changed too much, broke the dynamics, basically the sport became a game of 4 quarters instead of 2 halves. These two things combined together are just over the top and unacceptable (UEFA already said they won't use these mandatory ad breaks anywhere)
This is the closest where I can see a future where we have a rugby union / rugby league like schism.
Oh and guess who is behind the investment group: https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-fifa-investors-kushner-...
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#10It seems like Europe, yet again, have to stand up for ethics, morality and try to deflect corruption. It's so tiresome.
Isn't Infantino European?