As Fifa’s new boss snarls at Safa, local officials ponder who Infantino really is
HELL hath no fury like a Fifa president scorned, it seems. It’s been 26 days since the Fifa presidential election and from where I’m sitting, it seems it hasn’t taken long for new man Gianni Infantino to draw back his lips and bare his incisors in a threatening snarl in the direction of the South African Football Association (Safa).The whole world knows that Safa did not vote for the 45-year-old Swiss-Italian at the Fifa presidential election last month and this columnist — a tax-paying citizen of Paranoiaville — always believed that it would only be a matter of time before the recently anointed Big Enchilada showed exactly what he thought of SA’s decision to back his rival, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, instead.These are interesting times and SA doesn’t quite know which end is up as far as Infantino is concerned.While there are those in these parts who want to believe that he’s as well-meaning as the pope, there are also those who suspect he took strong exception to Safa’s ...
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