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It’s been another busy week for Gianni Infantino. The Fifa head honcho spent Sunday in Rabat looking slightly sheepish as he stood alongside Morocco’s Prince Moulay Rachid. After trying his best not to hand the Afcon trophy to Senegal’s players, Big G moved front and centre again to console Brahim Díaz and present him with the award for the worst penalty ever taken tournament’s top scorer. Having reassured Díaz that, as president of Fifa, he makes colossal errors of judgment all the time and nobody seems to mind, Infantino then jetted back to his Alpine lair to check on the chances of Morocco and Senegal meeting at the Geopolitics World Cup.
Speaking of the GWC, the usual petty gripes of extortionate ticket prices, inefficient transport links and a state-sponsored hostile environment in the USA USA USA had to take a back seat this week. With Donald Trump threatening to forcefully annex Greenland – the Danish-owned territory that gave the football world Jesper Grønkjær – Uefa suits meeting in Budapest were forced to pause a particularly lavish buffet to discuss a response. The spectre of a European boycott loomed briefly on the horizon, before Trump apparently lost interest in the whole idea. Still, Fifa kept curiously silent, having produced a statement on Sunday backing the award of its peace prize to Trump despite his emerging enthusiasm for invading other countries.
