Switzerland’s Gianni Infantino, president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), faces an unprecedented crisis that could threaten his ambitions to remain at the head of the most powerful footballing body in the world. His collapse triggered it: ambitious investment plans that aimed to inject billions of dollars into the federation’s competitions, including the World Cup, have fallen apart.
Infantino still intends to run for a fourth four-year term at the FIFA general assembly in Morocco next March, and he had…
