FIFA President Trust Issues in Football

Right, breaking news.

UEFA, CONCACAF, AFC have issued an open letter

to the football world saying

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has broken trust

through deception with the World Cup stake sale process.

It is a very long statement,

clearly putting more pressure on Gianni Infantino to resign.

We have picked out a couple of key segments here.

The trust is broken through deception when

an individual places himself above the collective

that entrusted him with authority,

that duty has been abandoned.

And it says this about the World Cup stake proposal.

What football witnessed was a failure of judgment,

a proposal advanced on a compressed timeline

without meaningful consultation and

pushed towards a failure of judgment

is not the product of an oversight,

it is the product of a design

intended to limit scrutiny.

It did not acknowledge that the proposal itself was inherently wrong.

There remains no recognition that

attempting to sell an interest in the FIFA World Cup

was a profound failure of judgment,

not just a procedural misstep,

but a fundamental breach of trust

with the very institutions FIFA exists to serve.

And the letter ends with,

it is not the conduct of a custodian of the game,

but of one who believes the game is answerable to him.