gianni infantino Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/gianni-infantino/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:06:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 Sometimes More is Better: Defending FIFA’s 48-team World Cup https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/07/09/sometimes-more-is-better-defending-fifas-48-team-world-cup/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/07/09/sometimes-more-is-better-defending-fifas-48-team-world-cup/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:04:08 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4498 Few folks would dare express public admiration for FIFA. Only newly beholden soccer association officials carrying suitcases full cash do that. In fact, open disdain for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association may be the only thing that unites proper fans in all 211 member nations. However, in its unquenchable lust for revenue, FIFA has [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/07/09/sometimes-more-is-better-defending-fifas-48-team-world-cup/feed/ 0 FIFA Introduces New ‘Dynamism’ to World Cup Ticketing Grift https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/01/01/fifa-introduces-new-dynamism-to-world-cup-ticketing-grift/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/01/01/fifa-introduces-new-dynamism-to-world-cup-ticketing-grift/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:41:15 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4241 The bleak, hyper-lux reality of World Cup ticket pricing is beginning to sink into the global futbol consciousness, and with FIFA itself. How do we know the latter? Because FIFA president Gianni Infantino sounds in increasingly defensive, claiming that without extortionate 2026 tournament revenues, “There would be no football in 150 countries in the [...]

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