Infantino under further pressure as FIFA number two distances himself

In an email sent to FIFA employees on Tuesday, August 4, which Le Monde has obtained, FIFA secretary-general Mattias Grafström distanced himself from Gianni Infantino, expressing regret over 'a sad and reproachable series of events' linked to Infantino's aborted plan to create a semi-private FIFA subsidiary.

First Thing: Trump chastises oil companies for ‘making too much money’ from his Iran war

US president takes aim at profits as oil companies worldwide benefit from US-Iran conflict. Plus, can you tell if someone is secretly filming you with Meta’s glasses? • Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has criticised oil companies for “making too much money” from the global energy market disruption caused by his war on Iran. The US president took aim at the windfall profits revealed last week by ExxonMobil and Chevron, and claimed the compan...

By Martin Belam

Pure fiction: FIFA deny calls between Infantino and Trump camp

FIFA has categorically denied the information published by the British newspaper The Times. Those reports claimed that the organization's president, Gianni Infantino, had held phone conversations with...

Trump accuses oil companies of making too much money as gas prices stay high amid Iran war

Trump accuses oil companies like Chevron of making too much money as gas prices stay high amid the Iran war and disruptions to global oil markets.

Donald Trump will do ‘everything possible’ to save Gianni Infantino from being toppled

By Connor Stringer, Ben Rumsby, Tom Morgan

Possible successors for embattled Fifa boss Infantino

Serbia, Sweden and Wales withdrew their support after Infantino's failed proposal to sell a...