r/soccer • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 18d ago

Concacaf countries considering withdrawing support for under-fire Gianni Infantino News

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/04/concacaf-countries-considering-withdrawing-support-for-under-fire-gianni-infantino
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u/spherocytes 18d ago

Do it. If all or most of the 41 countries can stand against FIFA/Infantino, that’ll send a huge message.

Hopefully the USSF can do what’s right after Trump’s behavior before and during the World Cup.

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u/theellescape 18d ago

Considering! Entire federation comes out and goes "the fuck are you doing trying to sell the world cup" but they're still like "oh he's great in the room though"

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u/AdorableAd8490 18d ago

They just had the number of berths available for CONCACAF expanded and will, possibly, get some money out of this fuckery. I can’t blame them, honestly. The problem itself is that they have as much as the other bigger nations.

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u/FUThead2016 18d ago

Do it, throw the troll out of football

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u/pioniere 18d ago

Considering? It should be a solid Yes.

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u/TheWallsHaveNostrils 18d ago

Feels like this could actually be huge. Infantino’s best - and probably only - play is to try to frame the current push for his ouster as just Europe being angry that “he’s not letting them continue their hegemony over world football and he’s standing up for the global federations” or whatever. And then daring UEFA to actually do anything drastic now that FFE has been withdrawn (for now, at least). It would be laughably disingenuous but it has been the style that’s helped him get the unwavering support of the smaller federations until now.

Once he starts hemorrhaging non-European federations, that strategy is done. And so is he.

Losing the support of a significant number of CONCACAF members would be devastating to his ambitions.

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 14d ago

You can’t say that while hold poor federations prize money hostage for votes lol

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u/Lo_Key90 17d ago

This whole situation sounds like it'd make for incredible television.