New Zealand break ranks with Oceania as FIFA’s Infantino divide grows
- Oceania have offered support to Gianni Infantino, but New Zealand have gone against their own confederation in FIFA row.
- New Zealand has become the latest nation to withdraw its support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid over his aborted commercial rights stake sale plan, while Oceania’s confederation cautiously backed the governing body’s leadership.
- Infantino has faced open revolt after three confederations – Europe’s UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean) – called for a review of his leadership and attacked his conduct
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- Oceania have offered support to Gianni Infantino, but New Zealand have gone against their own confederation in FIFA row.
- New Zealand has become the latest nation to withdraw its support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid over his aborted commercial rights stake sale plan, while Oceania’s confederation cautiously backed the governing body’s leadership.
- Infantino has faced open revolt after three confederations – Europe’s UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean) – called for a review of his leadership and attacked his conduct
Sources: Al Jazeera