FIFA celebrates the Club World Cup final this Sunday (13), with Paris Saint-Germain x Chelsea. The World Cup is a success.
Earlier this week, the entity opened its newest office in the United States. It is on the 17th floor of Trump Tower, on fifth Avenue, two blocks from Central Park. Gianni Infantino spoke alongside Ronaldo Phenomenon and Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump.
Infantine argues that FIFA needs to be global and, for that, it has to be in many places. In 2023, it moved its legal department to an office in Miami. Now it opens a headquarters in New York. In the past, FIFA’s movement was different.
Founded in Paris in 1903, he moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1932 to stay in the center of Europe and in a neutral country. It seemed important to be far from the international conflicts that would lead to World War II seven years later.
Today, FIFA is approaching the greatest threat to democracy that has emerged in the United States since the end of the secession war in 1865. “It is better to be close to Trump than distant from him.” The thought is those who try to understand the head of Infantino, within the International Football Federation.
The logic would be to prevent Trump from waking up on an American winter morning and decides not wanting to know about this sport that only crowds stadiums in the United States because of the Latinos.
He won’t do that because he knows the strength of football. Nor will the Dominicans called “Soto” will not arrest. This would end baseball in America.
Infantine doesn’t want to make it look like, but everything is risky with Trump in power. How to make a World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, while the US President wants to expel Mexicans, attach Canadians and taxing Brazilians, who last won the Americans hosted the World Cup.
Iran is ranked for 2026, and its fans, prohibited from entering the country.
I entered Trump Tower the day after the tariff. There was a group of Brazilians from Belém, taking pictures next to a golden plate in reference to the fact that Donald is the 45th president of the United States – it is currently 47th. The Paraenses posted next to the sign and contained.
The unbelievable scene happened in front of me, a day after Trump taxed Brazilian products at 50%, with no economic reason, only political. Max Naumann was captain of the German army in the First World War and a supporter of the beginning of Nazism. He was arrested for being Jewish.
FIFA’s friendship with the United States government is convenient and dangerous. The Club World Cup was a success. It depended on the Latin audience at the beginning, grew at the end with global clubs in New York, risks with gaming posts for lightning and thunder, received applause from all countries.
There are four candidates to host the next edition: Brazil, Qatar, Morocco and Spain. The Spaniards, despite the resistance of the league, also applaud the success of the tournament.
On the other hand, FIFA owes transparency about how it felt promoting a World Cup in a country that attacked one of its members, Iran.
FIFA did not comment. There was no sly interview by Gianni Infantino, except to celebrate his new office in Manhattan. Or rather at Trump Tower.
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