Gianni Infantino faces grilling at potentially ‘explosive’ Fifa council meeting
Gianni Infantino faces grilling at potentially ‘explosive’ Fifa council meeting. World Cup sell-off, Balogun and peace prize on agenda Opponents will press home need for independent review Gianni Infantino will be questioned by Fifa council members over his involvement in the aborted World Cup sell-off plan , the Folarin Balogun affair and the decision to award Donald Trump the inaugural Fifa peace prize at what is expected to be a heated meeting at the world governing body’s headquarters on Thursday.
World Cup sell-off, Balogun and peace prize on agenda Opponents will press home need for independent review Gianni Infantino will be questioned by Fifa council members over his involvement in the aborted World Cup sell-off plan , the Folarin Balogun affair and the decision to award Donald Trump the inaugural Fifa peace prize at what is expected to be a heated meeting at the world governing body’s headquarters on Thursday. The Fifa president rejected repeated calls for an extraordinary general meeting of council during the summer after the emergence of the Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposals, but will meet his critics for the first time since in Zurich with one attender predicting that the talks could be “explosive”.