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Gianni Infantino faces five-year prison threat as UEFA launches extraordinary legal attack
European football’s governing body opened two legal fronts against Gianni Infantino on Thursday, filing a US discovery request in Florida…
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Klaveness widens the FIFA crisis with a demand to audit Infantino’s decade
The Norwegian federation president wants a review of every reform introduced since 2016, taking the…
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A World Cup without Europe? UEFA’s legal move signals its FIFA boycott is more than posturing
The 55 European associations have escalated from words to a formal document preservation letter, keeping…
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Infantino’s escape route runs through a procedure, not a promise
Europe wants Gianni Infantino gone within weeks, but South America has framed the fight as…
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UEFA’s lawyers to 18 FIFA executives: destroy nothing
The letter from New York firm Dechert stops short of a lawsuit, but it names…
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Trump breaks into the FIFA civil war: ‘Replacing Infantino would be a terrible mistake’
The US president used a Truth Social post on Monday to publicly defend Gianni Infantino,…
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A new face at FIFA is not enough, Tebas warns as pressure on Infantino builds
La Liga president Javier Tebas told Le Monde that swapping personnel at the top of…
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Three continents on one page: AFC and CONCACAF join UEFA in accusing Infantino of ‘deception’
The presidents of UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF signed a joint open letter on Monday accusing…
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FIFA reaches for the language of lawyers as Infantino fight turns personal
Football’s world body has branded a Daily Telegraph story about its president “defamatory” and accused…
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Payoff claim opens a second front for Infantino as UEFA weighs probe of his entire 16 years
A Telegraph investigation into an alleged affair and a six-figure severance has pushed European football’s…