Trump's FIFA Phone Call Explodes Into Global Integrity Row

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“We can't have a system by which political figures can pick up the phone to Infantino and change the outcome of a match or a player’s fate.” FIFA is facing international backlash after allowing a banned US soccer star to play in the World Cup following a direct intervention from the White House, but “the rules and laws” of sport must be applied “equally” to everybody, says culture, media and sport committee chair, Dame Caroline Dinenage. Dame Caroline Dinenage was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday, 10am–1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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