The quickest route for Infantino’s exit would be for the Swiss to resign, like his predecessor Sepp Blatter did in 2015. But Infantino still retains support and he could try to hold out until March, when he is up for re-election for a fourth and final term as president. What other avenues are open? The
Gianni Infantino’s leadership of Fifa has been publicly questioned by football’s governing bodies in Europe, North and Central America and the Caribbean. Uefa and Concacaf both released statements on Saturday criticising the leadership at the world governing body after Infantino said Fifa would no longer proceed with the proposal to sell stakes in their competitions
Infantino also addressed criticism surrounding the standard of refereeing at the tournament, particularly concerns about political interference after US striker Folarin Balogun was made available for the round of 16 match when FIFA lifted his one-match suspension, following intervention by US President Donald Trump. Of the other 191 red cards shown at a men’s World
The FIFA World Cup Final halftime show provided an answer to the burning question of how to fit Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gustavo Dudamel, Chris Martin and the Muppets into a single 11-minute segment – in the most fleeting way possible. Although there were reports that the halftime show would be allowed to last
The United States does it its way. First it was hydration breaks, now it’s an 11-minute halftime show and a 30-minute mid-game break to complete its Super Bowl as the world’s largest sporting event. For all the controversy, there have been precedents: at the 2024 Copa América final between Argentina and Colombia in Miami, Shakira
was everything Chris Martin’s idea. During the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Coldplay frontman called Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, for whom he curates the Global Citizen Festival, to propose something new. “Wouldn’t it be amazing,” Evans remembers Martin saying, “if we could do the first World Cup halftime show?” Evans agreed and