Fifa’s all-powerful boss Gianni Infantino is not only well paid. He also enjoys handsome benefits in kind, according to a Swiss media outlet.
Successor to the controversial Sepp Blatter at the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino quickly attracted much criticism. Formerly Michel Platini’s trusted man when the latter was president of UEFA, the Swiss took advantage of the legal troubles of the former number ten of the French team to steal his marching orders and run for the presidency of FIFA.
Elected in the second round on February 26, 2016, he has been in office since then and has already served two terms, currently serving his third. Regularly targeted for certain contested choices, the fifty-year-old in any case benefits from the comfortable situation that his position offers him, with the advantages that go with it.
Paid 4.35 million euros, bonuses included, in 2023, Gianni Infantino is also entitled to a choice apartment located on the shores of Lake Zug. This is the Swiss media
Blick who revealed the information about this luxurious accommodation located on the top floor of a building, and having a large terrace, all for a monthly cost estimated at 8,370 euros. An amount for which the boss does not pay a cent since it is entirely covered by FIFA, according to the media.
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Blick contacted the authority which confirmed the matter. The media outlet quoted FIFA’s chief legal officer as saying: “This is in line with the standard remuneration package for top executives in many organisations in Switzerland.” Move along, everything is normal. There is indeed a lot of money at FIFA, and even more so since Gianni Infantino took over. The increase in the number of competitions and teams participating in them has a lot to do with it. But some teeth are starting to seriously grind,
especially those of players who view the arrival of the Club World Cup next summer with great disapproval and have openly threatened to strike.
While waiting to see if the main players will really move, Gianni Infantino continues on his merry way. Cited in the affair of Panama Papers in 2006, then in the investigation of Football Leaks in 2018 before being cleared in the ” FIFAgate ” he recently last year
by practically offering the 2034 World Cup to Saudi ArabiaA competition which could once again be postponed to winter for European countries, and impact the already busy schedule.
