Document shows Fifa staff were involved in project
Fifa was prepared to sideline member associations
Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League” in 2021, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football.
The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding and outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that later caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing plans to cut back the number of international windows and outlines how global football’s governing body would have been given special governance and political rights with a “golden share”.
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