{"id":868,"date":"2026-10-24T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/infantino-says-vast-vast-majority-of-soccer-supports-him-ahead-of-fifa-elections-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:02:58","slug":"infantino-says-vast-vast-majority-of-soccer-supports-him-ahead-of-fifa-elections-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/infantino-says-vast-vast-majority-of-soccer-supports-him-ahead-of-fifa-elections-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino says \u2018vast, vast majority\u2019 of soccer supports him ahead of FIFA elections &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" 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referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Infantino is seeking re-election next year as the head of soccer\u2019s world governing body in the face of attempts to force him to stand down in the wake of the divisive plan.<\/p>\n<p>He infuriated soccer leaders in Europe, North America and Asia over the proposal to sell profits in the World Cup through a commercial subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>But in an interview released Saturday with the BBC at the Under-15 World Cup in Azerbaijan, Infantino brushed off doubts about him being able to continue as president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.3013698630137\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Infantino-says-\u2018vast-vast-majority-of-soccer-supports-him-ahead-of-FIFA-elections-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.599315068493\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWell you know I was elected by 211 member associations from all over the world,\u201d Infantino said. \u201cI think what is important is that in an organization like FIFA, there can be different views, different points of view.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut if we are serious about democracy, about the democratic process, about believing that everyone has the same vote and the same voice all over the world, that football belongs to everyone, if we are serious about that, then we need, to respect as well the views of the vast, vast majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.50854700854701\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Sports<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Infantino is standing for a final term in office in March. The deadline for potential candidates to come forward to stand against him is Nov. 18.<\/p>\n<p>His latest comments came after he apologized to FIFA\u2019s ruling council last week for \u201cmistakes\u201d in his secretive investment plan for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his apology, European delegates said they left the meeting disappointed about what they saw as a lack of clarity.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Asian Football Confederation endorsed Infantino for another term as FIFA president in an apparent turnaround in its stance from two months ago when it criticized him for a breach of trust.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descrease article font size Increase article font size FIFA\u2019s embattled president Gianni Infantino said he has the backing of the \u201cvast, vast majority\u201d of soccer, despite his failed plan to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}