At MetLife Stadium on Wednesday, Gianni Infantino was walking around with a grin fixed to his face, looking to shake everyone’s hand. The Fifa president was essentially basking in how the Club World Cup had gone, and he was in a similar mood at the opening of the Fifa Office in New York’s Trump Tower the day before. If most of the focus there has been on the deepening of the relationship between Infantino and Donald Trump, senior football figures are shocked by another element.
The Fifa president has chosen the very building where US authorities approached Chuck Blazer and started the process of “flipping him”. The disgraced football official notoriously had two apartments in Trump Tower, including one for his cats, where he embezzled all of his money. Blazer’s evidence would ultimately bring down “the old Fifa” in 2015.
