🏛️ Politics 1d ago · Ali Walker, Gregorio Sorgi, Giulia Poloni

The fixer at the center of FIFA’s meltdown

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BRUSSELS — Gianni Infantino shut FIFA’s top leadership out of his bombshell plot to sell off parts of the World Cup to private investors. But he probably couldn’t have gotten even that far without the help of a largely unknown Italian lawyer who enjoys significant sway at the top of soccer’s global governing body.



Mario Gallavotti, whose relationship with FIFA’s president stretches back more than two decades as Infantino amassed power and cultivated ties with politici

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