Last fall, Gianni Infantino settled with his family in the emirate which hosts the World Cup at the end of 2022. However, we only learn of it several months later, raising many questions.
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What should you see there? While the ticket office for the next World Cup in Qatar has been open since Wednesday, what has been agitating the football world for several days is a move that raises many questions and is already causing criticism. Discreetly, in October 2021, the FIFA President decided to settle with his family in Doha. There’s rents a house and has educated two of her four daughters there.
The revelation was made by the press in Switzerland where the headquarters of the International Football Federation is located. Gianni Infantino had to justify himself: officially, he wants to supervise the final preparations for the World Cup which takes place in Qatar at the end of the year. Except that this is a first in history, none of its predecessors had done it.
So what is he playing? And would there be any counterparts to his coming? Some do not hesitate to mention dangerous links between him and Qatar. “It is a reconciliation of spouses and a marriage of interests“, sums up with mischief a researcher well versed in the functioning of FIFA, as when the giant of world football had withdrawn its complaint against the Qatari president of PSG for active private corruption.
A researcher from IRIS, the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, also confirms that in the midst of negotiations to impose his plan for a football World Cup every two years, Gianni Infantino needs the support of many confederations. He therefore wants to seduce them by leaving the European framework.
In this idea, in Switzerland, many are finally wondering about a possible desire to move the headquarters of FIFA to the Gulf, as if to validate that Doha has become the new epicenter of world football.