Trump Backs Infantino: Is Their Bromance Hurting FIFA? | First Sports With Rupha Ramani

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US President Donald Trump has thrown his full support behind FIFA president Gianni Infantino as the football boss faces the biggest rebellion of his career. From the FIFA office at Trump Tower and the controversial FIFA Peace Prize to the Folarin Balogun red-card episode, and now Trump’s direct endorsement, the relationship between the two has become impossible to ignore. But here’s the irony: while Trump may believe backing Infantino will help him survive, could this very closeness be making Infantino’s position even more vulnerable? Rupha Ramani decodes the growing Trump-Infantino alliance and why questions over FIFA’s independence are now louder than ever. Also on the show, FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces his biggest leadership crisis yet as UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF unite against him over FIFA’s controversial World Cup rights proposal. With a huge voting bloc, boycott threats and alternative competitions on the table, can Infantino survive the rebellion? And Babar Azam is back

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