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What happens next for Infantino and FIFA?

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 1021 words · By Jonathan Harding
FIFA Governance Crisis UEFA vs FIFA Power Struggle Infantino's Leadership Legitimacy
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August 3, 2026 Now that Gianno Infantino has shelved his plans to create a commercial subsidiary for the World Cup and other FIFA events, UEFA's boycott of FIFA events is over and matches now appear less in danger.

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What happened

August 3, 2026 Now that Gianno Infantino has shelved his plans to create a commercial subsidiary for the World Cup and other FIFA events, UEFA's boycott of FIFA events is over and matches now appear less in danger.

Why it matters

Nevertheless, the European governing body says it is now "rebuilding trust" with FIFA — and the story continues to develop rapidly.

Common ground

As a result, increased focus will be put on women's football when the U20 World Cup starts on September 5 in Poland, and when the U17 World Cup starts in October in Morocco.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 25 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Wales followed on Monday... before England followed suit later in the day.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that both Wales and England publicly withdrew their support for Gianni Infantino.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2035 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the 12th edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the national teams that repr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2035_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to over…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nineteen countries have hosted the FIFA World Cup in the competition's twenty-three tournaments since the inaugural World Cup in 1930. FIFA at first awarded hosting to countries at meetings of its con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hosts
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Claim 2: “Germany's FA (DFB) is the biggest sports association in the world”
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The claim is confirmed by a cross-reference from Deutsche Welle, identifying the DFB as the world's largest sports federation.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — the DFB, the world's largest sports federation
https://www.dw.com/en/andreas-rettig-you-cant-separate-sport…
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Claim 3: “Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Paris Saint-Germain chairman... the Qatari recently ruled himself out”
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Claim 4: “For Infantino to be voted out through a vote of no confidence, 106 votes would be required.”
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Claim 5: “DFB Director Andreas Rettig... The 63-year-old recently told Stern magazine”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm Andreas Rettig's role as DFB Director or his age.
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Claim 6: “Qatar, the UAE and Sri Lanka, who have publicly supported Infantino.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries about Qatar and Doha, but contains no information regarding whether Qatar, the UAE, or Sri Lanka have publicly supported Gianni Infantino.
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web search NEUTRAL — Qatar is one of the world's largest exporters of liquefied natural gas [25] and the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide per capita. [26] In the 21st century, Qatar emerged as both a non-NATO all…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
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web search NEUTRAL — It is also Qatar's fastest growing city and over 80% of the nation's population live in Doha or its surrounding suburbs, which are known collectively as the Doha Metropolitan Area. [3] Doha was founde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha
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web search NEUTRAL — Qatar has been ruled by the House of Thani since the early 19th century. Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani was the founder of the State of Qatar. Qatar is a hereditary monarchy and its head of state…
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
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Claim 7: “The reported revenues from this summer's World Cup were $15 billion (€13 billion)”
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Claim 8: “qualifiers for next summer's World Cup in Brazil”
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The evidence directly contradicts the claim. The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Brazil hosted the World Cup in 2014.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article summarizes the results and overall performance of Brazil at the FIFA World Cup, including the qualification phase and the final phase, officially called the World Cup finals. The qualific…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014 FIFA World Cup (Portuguese: Copa do Mundo da FIFA Brasil 2014) was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. It took pla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Brazil participated for the 17th time in the event. The country remained as the only national team to have participated in every installment of the FIFA World Cup. They are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_at_the_2002_FIFA_World_…
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Claim 9: “Norwegian FA President Lise Klaveness... reached the UEFA Executive Committee in 2025.”
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Claim 10: “the U17 World Cup starts in October in Morocco”
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One source mentions Morocco will host a forthcoming edition, but another source explicitly states the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will be held in the Dominican Republic from October 16 to November 3, 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup, the biennial international women's youth basketball championship contested…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIBA_Under-17_Women's_Bas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup (formerly FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women) is the women's international under-17 basketball championship organised by FIBA. The inaugural tour…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Under-17_Women's_Basketba…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The FIFA U-17 World Cup, founded as the FIFA U-16 World Championship, later changed to U-17 in 1991 and to its current name in 2007, is the annual world championship of association football for male p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_U-17_World_Cup
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Claim 11: “Uefa has 55 votes, Africa 54, Asia 46, Concacaf 35, Oceania 11 and Conmebol 10”
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Claim 12: “AFC chief, Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, who lost out to Infantino in the 2016 election”
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Claim 13: “Following the resignation of Infantino's senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro last week”
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Claim 14: “A member of Bahrain’s ruling House of Khalifa, the 60-year-old”
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Claim 15: “He will run for re-election as president for a final four-year term, looking to gain 106 votes from FIFA's 211 member states”
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Claim 16: “the current UEFA President, Alexander Ceferin”
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Claim 17: “Jordan FA President Ali bin Hussein accused Infantino of "blackmail", claiming FIFA offered to help solve the kingdom's problems in exchange for his endorsement.”
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Three independent sources confirm that Jordan FA President Ali bin Hussein accused Infantino of 'blackmail' regarding offers of help in exchange for endorsement.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jordan FA President Ali bin Hussein accused FIFA President Gianni Infantino of 'blackmail', claiming FIFA offered assistance in exchange for his endorsement. Bin Hussein stated that Jordan's FA uphold…
https://www.rediff.com/sports/report/jordan-fa-president-acc…
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web search NEUTRAL — ...the president of the Jordanian Football Association, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, wrote on X that his organisation "certainly" would not endorse Infantino after alleging FIFA sought to secure his sup…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL0rkznm9k
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web search NEUTRAL — Jordan FA president Ali bin Hussein accused FIFA of "blackmail" , claiming it offered to help solve many of the kingdom's problems in exchange for endorsing Infantino.
https://dunyanews.tv/en/Sports/966330-battle-lines-drawn-wit…
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Claim 18: “the U20 World Cup starts on September 5 in Poland”
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The evidence directly contradicts the claim. Wikipedia states the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup took place in Colombia from August 31 to September 22, 2024, not in Poland starting September 5.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of squads for each national team that competed at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The tournament took place in Colombia, from 31 August to 22 September 2024. It was the 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_FIFA_U-20_Women's_World_C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup is an international association football tournament, organized by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), for national teams of women under the age of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_U-20_Women's_World_Cup
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players up to the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_U-20_World_Cup
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Claim 19: “There might also be an Extraordinary FIFA Congress if 43 associations formally request it.”
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Claim 20: “The election for Infantino's post is on March 18, 2027, at the 77th FIFA Congress in Rabat, Morocco.”
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Claim 21: “Concacaf... president Victor Montagliani”
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Claim 22: “Gianno Infantino has shelved his plans to create a commercial subsidiary for the World Cup and other FIFA events”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Gianni Infantino cancelled the 'FIFA Forward Enterprise' (FFE) project, which was a plan to create a commercial subsidiary and bring in private investment.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) was a proposed commercial subsidiary of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), announced on 28 July 2026 to manage the commercial and operational r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Forward_Enterprise
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino (born 23 March 1970) is a Swiss football administrator who has served as the president of FIFA since 2016. He was previously Secretary General of UEFA from 2009 t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Infantino
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2030 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 24th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament that is contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030_FIFA_World_Cup
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Claim 23: “If 19 of the 37 members of the FIFA Council... vote in favor of his resignation then Infantino may well be out of office”
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Claim 24: “The first nation to publicly drop their support for Gianni Infantino was Finland, last week.”
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The claim states Finland was the first nation to drop support. However, multiple sources explicitly state that Wales was the first nation to publicly withdraw its support for Gianni Infantino.
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web search NEUTRAL — Wales has become the first country to publicly withdraw its support for Gianni Infantino continuing as FIFA president.
https://en.as.com/soccer/a-failure-we-cannot-accept-first-na…
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web search NEUTRAL — Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino is a Swiss football administrator who has served as the president of FIFA since 2016.Infantino's career has generated controversy over his leadership directives, f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Infantino
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web search NEUTRAL — Wales first nation to withdraw support for Infantino. Wales become the first nation to publicly withdraw backing for Gianni Infantino's bid to continue his leadership of Fifa. BBC. MLB Trade Deadline.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/gianni-infantino-not-meeti…
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Claim 25: “any potential challengers must declare their candidacy by 18 November.”
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