The Swiss, of Calabrian origins, Gianni Infatino, 45 (AP)
The Secretary-general of ‘ Uefa and Fifa presidential candidate Gianni Infantino said that if he is elected as head of the international football federation will propose that the World Cup involved 40 teams in 2026. “We would give eight other countries the opportunity to take advantage of the madness of the World,” he said in an interview with Spanish sports daily AS. The World Championship, he added, “is the strongest tool to promote football in the world.”
elections to return – in addition to the election of Infantino proclaims, does discuss the initiative taken by another candidate for the FIFA presidency, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, sat before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to ask for a postponement of the elections, scheduled for Friday. According to his lawyers, the center of his “protest” is the refusal by the International Federation, to provide the transparent cabins for the vote, a request which was, yesterday, the subject of initial postponement of Tas . “Instead of accepting the proposal made by Prince Ali to provide transparent cabins, FIFA nothing but a simple formula that required voters to leave their mobile phones at the time of the vote.”
the other candidates – The other candidates to succeed Joseph Blatter, overwhelmed by “Fifagate” together with Michel Platini, they are the sheik of Bahrain Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Frenchman Jerome Champagne and the South African Tokyo Sexwale.
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