PREMIUM Fifa’s civil war, and potentially-explosive fight for the soul of football The people who control players, clubs and the money have moved to prove that football does not need Fifa. Football Just now Listen
Within 48 hours, three of the six continental confederations had repudiated him, Europe had voted to boycott the World Cup, the head of La Liga had demanded his resignation and the unthinkable had become obvious; football does not need Fifa, and the people who control the players, the clubs, the stadiums and the money have just been handed a motive to prove it.
Poland will host the Women’s Under-20 World Cup, the first competition Europe’s boycott would touch.
Once Europe and North America began to imagine a world beyond Zurich, the question changed from governance to ownership, from who runs football to who actually holds its assets.
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