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Red card on Fifa plan: a step too far or too honest?
Top-flight football has been a financialized global industry for a generation
Keith Mullin
5 Aug 2026
Is it just me, or was the explosively adverse reaction to Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s now-cancelled plan to bring private capital into the organization’s most valuable assets overblown, misdirected and self-serving?