A group of influential current and former footballers published and circulated a statement calling for Infantino to be removed from his post on social media. Among them are former Manchester United and Arsenal defender Mikael Silvestre, as well as England national team defender Lucy Bronze, former England goalkeeper David James, and Emmanuel Petit, winner of the 1998 World Cup in France.
"Changes are necessary. Power has deprived the current leadership of the ability to distinguish its own interests from what is best for football. Recent events have made silence impossible", — the footballers said.
The athletes have taken aim at the FIFA president also because, he reportedly planned to bring private investors into the commercial rights to the World Cup and kept a young mistress at UEFA’s expense. The plan, according to sources cited by the New York Post, to sell part of the rights was cancelled.
❗️On August 18, it became known that Infantino could be barred from a fourth term — a letter with a demand to recognize him as ineligible to stand for election was sent to the International Federation of Football.
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