Is it possible for him to own the rules of football? The International Football Association Board is half run by the English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh football associations. The rest is FIFA, but if they were replaced by UEFA, or even just representatives from Germany, Italy, Spain and France, I don’t think there is much that they can do about it.
Even if there was consensus, they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it with 20% of the shares.
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Yeah maybe not the rules of the game itself but the regulations of the competitions.
Nevertheless, as we saw in this world cup, they can bend the rules. For example half time according to IFAB is 15 minutes, and they extended to 30 minutes for the half time show.
This is,in effect privatisation which will go down like a lead balloon in many countries,privatisation always increases costs,his proposed 64 countries next time might wind up being a whole lot less,= less countries, less interest,less money.
Infantino is a money grubbing idiot,like his bestie!
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He needs to be driven out of office.
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That would be nice.
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All the major/Influential Football Federations need to have an emergency meeting to stop FIFA. FIFA is not an NFL franchise.
https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/2082405607156388128
A great many smaller countries certainly won’t turn down 40 million. That is bribery.
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https://x.com/draper_rob/status/2082404204602159315
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And if these Football Associations refuse. Infantino can’t force them.
If there can be a campaign to get major football federations to do a boycott like as follows:
Mexico
Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
Germany
Spain
France
England
Scotland
Wales
Portugal
Netherland
Italy
Belgium
Croatia
Poland
Turkey
Switzerland
Morocco
Egypt
Algeria
Senegal
Ghana
Ivory Coast
South Africa
Nigeria
Without these countries, the World Cup would nothing. Boycott friendlies as well
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Maria, the small nations will almost certainly agree to that, I’m afraid; they won’t turn down the money.
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I understand that, but football powerhouses like Germany, France, Brazil, Spain etc will certainly not like this. Surely they have some power in influencing the decision.
UEFA is also dead against this corrupt FIFA project.
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I hope so, but I’m not convinced; the mere threat that countries failing to agree will come away empty-handed makes me fear the worst. There are countless associations worldwide that rely on that money.
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https://x.com/RobHarris/status/2082413299547648142
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https://x.com/theafcdotcom/status/2082398216591450216
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There you go
https://x.com/RobHarris/status/2082424053789265986
As I feared, there will be countries where officials rub their hands together at the thought of how best to divide the money among themselves.
This can only be averted if “the big nations” boycott it. Only then will it become unattractive enough for those money-grubbers to go through with it.
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Infantino is responsible to the FIFA assembly. The fundamental problem is one association, one vote. So Trinidad, a middling nation in a middling regional federation (CONCACAF) gets the same vote as France, Brazil or England - all of whom contribute far more and bear far more of the costs of any changes. But there are far more associations who only gain. Unfortunately, most of the African federations will support Infantino’s play for the cash.
At this point, UEFA is the only entity that can take a leadership position with enough weight to matter. Some of the other federations might choose to follow.
A first step might be real hardball - rejecting FIFA authority over transfers involving UEFA members. Squeeze clubs in other federations with the real money in the game.
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At a guess, at least 9 of those countries will support Infantino’s proposal.
At this point, I think UEFA should begin organizing a ‘People’s World Cup’, akin to the Barcelona 1936 alternative Olympics.
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Its simple tbf , uefa should withdraw, it would mean that mainly south american players wont be able to play for European teams/ national team…but the money involved would basically cripple fifa …no European team partaking in wc…and the transfer to european clubs from south america is basically halted overnight .
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That doesn’t necessarily follow - if UEFA withdraws from FIFA, it withdraws from the FIFA player license system. That doesn’t mean that South American players cannot play in UEFA. UEFA decides that. It does mean that a UEFA club can ignore a FIFA playing license being held by a non-UEFA club, and those clubs would be under no obligation to release their players for FIFA fixture windows.
If you were one of those Senegal players who was ‘punished’ by having no return flight and will undoubtedly be waiting for a year before they get their World Cup pay (a tiny fraction of what the ones playing in Europe earn), the logic gets pretty clear pretty quickly.
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