FIFA President Gianni Infantino touches down in Pyongyang for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier between North and South Korea – two countries technically still at war. IMAGES
Gianni Infantino was re-elected by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the Congress of world football’s governing body in Paris on Wednesday. The 49 year-old, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 after the departure of the disgraced Sepp Blatter, stood unopposed for re-election for a new four-year term which will run until 2023. IMAGES
FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Friday confirmed plans to launch an expanded 24-team Club World Cup in 2021 following a meeting in Miami. SOUNDBITE. MORE TO FOLLOW
Fifa boss Gianni Infantino, UEFA’s Alexander Ceferin and other officials arrive at the Kigali Convention Center for a FIFA council meeting in Rwanda. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump gave the assembled White House media their marching orders when he brandished a red card to assembled journalists during a meeting with FIFA boss Gianni Infantino on Tuesday.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino said two days ahead of the final this has been so far the ‘best World Cup ever’ and that he believes the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system is ‘cleaning’ football, by turning it into a more ‘transparent’ and just’ competition.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino meet up at the Football Park set up on Red Square, in the heart of Moscow, to officially start a football match between Russian orphans, coached by former international football stars like Germany’s Lothar Matthaus and Brazil’s Ronaldo.
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‘We know how important this day is for the Russian people. It was the Soviet Union that suffered the most from the war unleashed by Hitler’s German’ – Reinhard Grindel, President of the German Football Association
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a delegation from the German Football Association (DFB) laid wreaths and flowers at the Memorials of Military Glory in Volgograd and Sochi, respectively, on Friday.
Infantino laid flowers in Mamaev Kurgan memorial complex in the city of Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. He also left a note in a visitors’ book.
The German delegation laid wreaths and flowers at the Memorial of Glory in Sochi. President of the German Football Association Reinhard Grindel said that it was a “sign of respect and reverence for the memory of the fallen in battles.” He went on to say that the members of the delegation know how “important this day is for the Russian people.”
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Football is known as the great unifier, but Western media is using the Skripal case to urge fans not to go to Russia for the World Cup, saying it’s unsafe to do so. FIFA President Gianni Infantino says that perception is untrue.
RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.
Football is known as the great unifier, but Western media is using the Skripal case to urge fans not to go to Russia for the World Cup, saying it’s unsafe to do so. FIFA President Gianni Infantino says that perception is untrue.
RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.