The world of football has reached a crossroads. Self-important functionaries and authoritarian countries are marring the sport with backroom deals and covert plans for a new league. Today, DER SPIEGEL is launching a multi-week series disclosing their secrets.
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Both clubs are blatantly controlled by authoritarian governments of super-rich Gulf states. Thousands of pages of Football Leaks documents prove:
ManCity and PSG systematically violated FIFA's financial fair play rules for years;
Infantino, as UEFA general secretary, buckled under pressure from Abu Dhabi and Qatar and allowed the clubs from Manchester and Paris to operate with virtual impunity;
UEFA meted out only mild punishments to the two clubs and did not expel either of them from the Champions League as it did with smaller clubs;
Infantino -- despite an obligation to strict neutrality -- secretly met for negotiations with club bosses from Paris and Manchester;
he fed internal association info to the clubs and cleared the way for "settlements," although he was not authorized to do so;
that he thus systematically undermined UEFA's own oversight procedures and bodies.
In other words: Infantino trampled the values of the sport. Here is the in-depth feature on his activities.
