Will Infantino survive Fifa’s latest scandal? Trump’s involvement changes everything

By admin — In News — July 31, 2026

   ​Football chiefs will consider whether to push for a vote of no confidence on Gianni Infantino following another day of drastic developments surrounding the embattled Fifa president. But Infantino’s game-breaking Fifa Forward Enterprise plan is described as “not dead yet”, with the Swiss official still pushing on with his controversial plans after the global governing body issued another round of “clarifications” overnight.Sources have even spoken of Infantino continuing on in the office as normal. Meanwhile, many outside his small circle are highly curious as to what he is “feeling” right now, as a previously invulnerable position has been left so exposed in a matter of days.FIFA president Gianni Infantino and US president Donald Trump with the World Cup trophy (Bradley Collyer/PA) (PA Wire)Above anything, it’s remarkable to think a Fifa president can continue when the most powerful continent has boycotted the World Cup, in Uefa, and two other confederations have at least prepared the ground to follow.This all in a week that actually started with Infantino berating the media for criticism. One of his most senior advisors, Carlos Cordeiro, has also now quit, signing off with a damning statement. That’s just another development that would usually be difficult to survive.Federation chiefs have already started talking about the process of a vote of no confidence, which would first necessitate a meeting of the Fifa Council and then 43 member associations – a quarter of the 211 – to push for an Extraordinary Congress.Before that, though, everyone is waiting to see how the dust settles. Football chiefs have even felt it’s all been happening too fast to even properly register.Amid all of that, Cordeiro’s statement was still clear enough to sum up the main problems with this plan. He wrote of how Fifa “sits on billions of dollars in reserves and no debt”, ensuring that “selling a permanent stake in football’s most valuable asset to raise $4.2bn makes little sense”.“Why this deal? Why now?”The JP Morgan deck for the plan is indeed said to have been “the final straw” for many member associations, including how it seemed to undervalue something as precious as the World Cup – let alone the principle of selling it off. They also pointed to contradictions in how Fifa is now bleating about consultations, but their very documents say terms have been agreed. As one involved figure said, “who agreed them?”The exclusion of Cordeiro from the process is one of many elements that has only further baffled football.Cordeiro (left) was a key figure within Fifa as Infantino’s right-hand man (AFP/Getty)While the former US Soccer president has been a divisive figure himself, he is seen as one of “the world’s top bankers” given his decades of work at Goldman Sachs.It would surely have been obvious for Infantino to include him in formulating an idea like this, not least given their proximity. But he didn’t.Among anoth  

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