“I never believed it would actually happen. Not really. Not until this week, when, for the first time, there was a sense, as The Godfather makes so abundantly clear, that you really can get to anyone. Gianni Infantino is beleaguered. Gianni Infantino is re-beleaguered. Gianni Infantino has been beleaguered for almost six weeks, since news emerged of his grotesque undercover plan to sell off, for related personal gain, the shared global property he’s employed to preserve, protect and safely pass on. There has been hopeful talk in that time of toxic status attained, a base being hollowed out, a rival presidential candidate next March. But power runs deep. Entrenched dictatorial power runs even deeper. Time passes. The doorway narrows. Infantino is already the man who sold the world, not once, but twice, most recently to Donald Trump in return for a peace prize, a scrunchie and a fawning presence around the sub-table of power. …”
Guardian
NYT/ATH: FIFA confirms Gianni Infantino will stand for re-election in 2027, despite opposition

Infantino has been under intense pressure since abandoning his failed FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) scheme.