FIFA’s Infantino ‘Must Go, No Ifs or Buts’, Blasts German FA Vice President
Watzke cited the FIFA Peace Prize, a World Cup red-card reversal and a secret company plan as reasons Infantino should leave.
- On Thursday evening in Berlin, German Football Association vice-president Hans-Joachim Watzke declared that FIFA President Gianni Infantino must leave his post "no ifs or buts," citing a complete loss of trust in current leadership.
- Three specific actions prompted his condemnation: the FIFA Peace Prize awarded to President Donald Trump, the controversial overturning of Folarin Balogun's red card, and an undisclosed proposal for a commercial company involving private investors.
- "You can't just invent something on your own and then announce it, it's madness," Watzke said, arguing Infantino "created this prize himself, and he decided on it himself" without consulting the Council.
- The German Football Association was one of the few federations declining to support Infantino's re-election, with DFB president Bernd Neuendorf stating earlier this week that it is time for the Swiss administrator to depart.
- Infantino remains the sole candidate for the FIFA presidency election scheduled for March 18, 2027, with the nomination deadline set for November 18.
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Gianni Infantino ‘needs to go now – no ifs, ands, or buts,’ says Hans-Joachim Watzke
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Arab NewsInfantino ‘must go’, says German FA vice-president
Hans-Joachim Watzke, one of the vice-presidents of the German Football Association, says three points in particular counted against Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
After the FFF, which has already formalized its refusal to support Gianni Infantino for a new term in FIFA, Germany follows suit. Hans-Joachim Watzke, president of Borussia Dortmund and vice-president of the German Federation, has in turn positioned himself against Switzerland.
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