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Norwegian football chief jabs Infantino

6 July 2026 at 03:15

Lise Klaveness, the president of Norway's football federation, criticized FIFA chief Gianni Infantino's extensive travel by private jet during the World Cup.

"Being in one place for the first half and another for the second, and having to fly back and forth," Klaveness told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. "That’s not how we would have done it."

A recent BBC report estimated that Infantino's plane travel during the first two weeks of the World Cup has produced the equivalent climate impact of 78 people over a whole year.

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Can Gianni Infantino keep winning over Trump without losing the world?

6 July 2026 at 02:51

Our Sophia Cai wrote in December about concerns within FIFA that President Gianni Infantino was compromising the credibility of soccer's governing body in his efforts to placate Donald Trump:

Read Sophia's story "Gianni Infantino's Trump Problem" here.

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