Yahoo Sports· 1h ago· 1 min read
Aleksander Ceferin delivered his masterstroke as UEFA president almost at the end of his roughly 10-year tenure although he would probably have preferred not to have had to do it.
Within 48 hours, the lawyer from Slovenia organized Europe's united resistance against a billion-dollar World Cup investor plan with which Gianni Infantino and FIFA stunned the football world this week.
Outrage, mockery, sports-political explosion
Ceferin's UEFA torpedoed the world governing body's business conduct in three acts.
Part one: outrage. “This crosses a line that football's governing institutions should never cross.” Part two: mockery. “That says everything you need to know about this plan,” UEFA said regarding the reported September 19 FIFA deadline for members.
Part three on Thursday amounted to nothing less than an open break with FIFA and a sports-political explosion that has already…
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