It may have been tiredness at the end of a long campaign or simply disbelief that he had pulled off an unlikely victory, but as he stood before his new, none more dysfunctional “Fifa family” the dazed expression on the face of Gianni Infantino might just have been the first hint of the realisation of what he had got himself into. The smooth 45-year-old polyglot lawyer, with his distinctive shiny pate and plausible manner, had made himself popular with many of the associations that ultimately decided his fate by charging around the world dispensing promises about increased development funding and greater investment in grassroots football around the globe. As long as it goes hand in hand with...
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