After hours of delay
Eklat around Infantino: Group around DFB boss leaves FIFA Congress
15.05.2025 – 9:06 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The President of the World Football Association brings the delegates against themselves at a congress in Asunción-with apparently the three-story behavior. Europe’s emissaries then choose a sign.
In protest against the behavior of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the European Council delegates left the podium at the congress of the World Corporate Association. After the coffee break, the officials led by UEFA President Aleksander Čeferer and DFB boss Bernd Neuendorf did not return to the places reserved for them behind the FIFA chairman. There were no reactions of the UEFA delegates or from FIFA for the incident for the time being.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the European officials protested against the behavior of Infantino, who had arrived in Asunción too late after his Middle East trip with US President Donald Trump. The congress therefore started with more than three hours late. Infantino apologized for the delay, but then held the general assembly routinely.
The head of the World Football Association had flown to Asunción with a private jet, but had not reached the capital of Paraguay in time. Infantino had spent the past few days in Saudi Arabia and Qatar to accompany US President Donald Trump there.
This trip had caused critical comments in official circles, since the Swiss had already missed appointments in the run -up to the general assembly. In Asunción, hundreds of delegates from 211 soccer countries were waiting for Infantino.