Among the many merits of Gianni Infantino, it is essential to highlight the fact that he is successful in the globalization of football.
Three days after the final of the Club World Cup in New York and while the Women’s Euro is in full swing, it is said to highlight the important role played by the Switzerland, Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA and by Switzerland, the organizing country of Euro Foot Women.
Among the many merits of Gianni Infantino, it is essential to highlight the fact that he is successful in the globalization of football. His predecessor, Sepp Blatter, had started to organize World Cups on all continents, especially in Africa. The current president of FIFA has made a much greater movement insofar as he globalized football himself. On the one hand, he globalized the organization by setting up FIFA offices on many continents. On the other hand, the organization of the World Cup of clubs is part of a movement with the objective that fortunes, especially of the Middle East, no longer come to invest in European clubs but create large clubs with them. While some thought that the club World Cup was going to be played only between Europeans, it is important to note that there were three non-European clubs in the quarter-final and a Brazilian club in the semi-finals.
In addition, a World Cup of clubs which I hope will take place in the future not all four but every two years, has the merit of disconnecting football from nationalism and of offering the possibility to players who would have no chance of being world champions with their national team to become with their clubs. The best example is Erling Haaland, Norwegian Manchester City player who will never be world champion with Norway but who could be with his English club. With all its successes to its credit, it is time that Switzerland pays homage and highlights its citizen who undoubtedly occupies the highest function in international bodies. Well done and a big thank you Mr. Infantino!
Switzerland as a country this time also plays an important role in this month of July as an organizer of Euro Foot Women. Indeed, I cannot insist too much on the importance that sport, in particular football, in the struggle for equal rights between men and women. There is still work to be done in particular financially, but the enthusiasm of the Swiss population for this event is a sign of the most positive. Thank you to the Swiss and the Swiss!