October 2 – It was another bad day for FIFA president Gianni Infantino who lost both the support of the Swiss federation, the nation of his birth, and was hammered by Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto who called him a ‘cancer on football’.
The withdrawal of Swiss support for Infantino is significant because as a Swiss citizen, Infantino has led a charmed life, having twice had criminal charges for attempting to interfere with a judicial investigation dropped by Swiss prosecutors.
Switzerland’s FA (SFV) confirmed it had withdrawn its support for Gianni Infantino’s re-election saying: “The decision follows a comprehensive reassessment of developments over the past few months. From the SFV’s perspective, various incidents raise fundamental questions regarding leadership, governance, transparency and decision-making processes within FIFA.
“As these have not been convincingly clarified, we cannot justify continuing to support Gianni Infantino’s candidacy.”
The SFV executive committee reversed its decision to support for Infantino, despite endorsing his candidacy in June. Infantino was born in Brig, an Alpine town in Valais canton in southern Switzerland.
Despite being a Swiss citizen who has spent the bulk of his working life in the governing bodies of UEFA and FIFA (prior to that he was a researcher for the CIES Football Observatory), Infantino has never actually worked directly at football’s coalface either with a club, league or a national federation, including his own...
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