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The Super League Thought It Had a Silent Partner: FIFA
Publicly, soccer’s global governing body criticized a breakaway European Super League. Privately, it had held talks for months with the founders about endorsing the competition.
Top aides to FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, met with Super League organizers as recently as January.Credit.Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
May 20, 2021Updated 8:08 a.m. ET
Tucked away in the pages and pages of financial and legal jargon that constitute the founding contract of the Super League, the failed project that last month briefly threatened the century-old structures and economics of European soccer, were references to one “essential” requirement.