FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Wednesday linked his plan for biennial World Cups to giving more hope to Africans who risk their lives crossing the sea to Europe.
In a speech to European lawmakers, the leader of world soccer’s governing body said the sport was being dominated by the few who “have everything” and that it needed to be more global and inclusive.
“We need to find ways to include the entire world, to give hope to Africans so that they don’t need to cross the Mediterranean in order to find, maybe, a better life but more probably death in the sea,” Infantino told the Parliamentary Assembly of
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