IN HIS OWN WORDS

“Football is not for sale. I cannot accept that some people, some of our colleagues who are blinded by the pursuit of profit, are considering to sell the soul of football tournaments to nebulous private funds. We are not the owners of football. We are not allowed to sell it” Without naming Gianni Infantino, Ceferin criticised the secretive plans for an expanded Club World Cup, funded by Saudi Arabia, and denounced “a highly cynical and ruthless mercantilism”