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FIFA is on target to reap record revenues of seven billion dollars on the back of this year's Qatar World Cup, president Gianni Infantino said Thursday as experts predicted a long-term financial boom for football. Infantino told the annual congress of the sport's world governing body that FIFA's finances were "great" and that it would beat its target of making $6.4 billion in the four years up to 2022 by $600 million.
Gianni Infantino salió al paso en su discurso del Congreso de la FIFA de las noticias que confirman que su organización se está encontrando muchas trabas para llevar a cabo el proyecto de un Mundial bienal: «La FIFA debe organizar competiciones internacionales propias. Son un impulsor del desarrollo. Ha llegado el momento de centrarnos en el futuro del fútbol y de las competiciones. Para todos. Así que aclaro algo del Mundial bienal. La FIFA no ha propuesto un Mundial bienal».
The head of Norway’s FA has launched an extraordinary attack on FIFA’s decision to award the World Cup to Qatar, in front of delegates at a congress being held in the Gulf country, as Gianni Infantino confirmed he would stand again as president. Lise Klaveness attacked Qatar’s human rights record and laws which criminalise same-sex relationships, but it did not go down well with everyone that was attending Ad/> Ahead of tomorrow’s draw for the tournament, Klaveness said: «We cannot ignore the calls for change. How FIFA runs the game has so much to say for how football is perceived — in every confederation and in every association.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to engage in dialogue and stop the war in Ukraine.
Egypt have asked for their World Cup qualifier against Senegal to be relayed after they claimed Mo Salah was "attacked" in "a strange atmoshpere".
Gianni Infantino announced on Thursday he will stand for re-election for a third term as president of FIFA. "I want to tell you that I will be standing for re-election next year," Infantino said at the congress of world football's governing body in Doha.
The idea of a biennial World Cup was not a FIFA proposal, its president Gianni Infantino has said.
Gianni Infantino has stepped sharply back from hotly contested plans for a biennial World Cup, telling world football's leadership that FIFA had never proposed such an idea.