Tariq Panja
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first heard Aug 2026
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He's not the first person to say this and this isn't the first scandal FIFA has had.
What David was saying just takes me back to May 2015 when the Swiss authorities acting on behalf of the Department of Justice dragged the previous...
group of FIFA leaders out of luxury hotel bedrooms in Switzerland and replaced them with what we've had now with Gianni Infantino and co.
And there was talk then of this.
And the reason we won't have this is because if you do a listing, you become a public company.
Guess what?
You need to have a greater degree of transparency over your operations.
And as we've seen here from these people, whether it's Sepp Blatter's period, Joao Havilland before him, and now Gianni Infantino, the light is not something that this organisation seems to enjoy.
To me, it seems like FIFA is impossible to reform from within.
It will require outside bodies, perhaps governments, to now take a closer look at what FIFA is.
Yeah, that's something that I've been speaking about with people.
At the moment, you have people at FIFA who think they are in a battle, and they are commercially with their confederations, for example, looking for television revenue or sponsors against UEFA, for example, whereas UEFA is also sat.
As you know, Alexander Sheffrin, the president, is also a vice president of FIFA.
It's kind of not fit for purpose, this system.
But I think it's much bigger than all of this, really.
So we're talking about FIFA today.
But the entire football pyramid is full of little FIFAs, whether it is the Confederations, the ones that we're really celebrating here for standing up to this, or whether it is a lot of the football associations around the world.
A lot of these organisations are riven with the same problems we are seeing here in the much bigger scale with Infantino and what he's doing with this scheme.
What should be happening is a bigger conversation, perhaps, of how this most popular of sports, this engine of the global sports economy, is actually run, whether at a regional level or at the FIFA level.
Because you change something at FIFA, but the UEFA model is almost exactly the same.
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