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Andrew Giuliani, the former executive director of the White House Task Force for the 2026 World Cup, believes that anyone in football who wants rid of Gianni Infantino “needs to get their head examined”.
Giuliani worked closely with Infantino before and during this summer’s tournament and has leapt to his defence amid the ongoing fallout from the FIFA president’s abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan.
Infantino’s U-turn on FFE, which would have seen world soccer’s governing body make stakes in the World Cup available for private investment, has led to UEFA, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to conclude he should now resign from his position.
However, Giuliani, son of former New York City Mayor and U.S. President Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, is convinced that is being driven through jealousy.
“It’s politics,” he says, when asked by The Athletic for his thoughts on Infantino’s predicament. “I’ve seen this before. I’ve seen it before when they’ve targeted President Trump from a political perspective. I’ve seen it before when they’ve targeted other people.
“People are jealous when people are very high achievers. And what Gianni Infantino has done for FIFA is he’s taken them to a whole new level that probably they didn’t think was possible.
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“You’ve got to remember, this is the very first World Cup that Gianni Infantino was president for landing, right? He inherited the Russia and Qatar World Cups, and did a good job with those, but this is the first one. It’s his vision on this.
“What I’ll tell you is that for any soccer confederation or football federation president who is thinking about not voting for Gianni Infantino, it would probably be one of the most foolish decisions of your professional life.
“This guy literally just put on the largest global sporting event ever without any incident, making over four times the revenue of the last World Cup, and you’re thinking of ousting him.
“If Gianni Infantino doesn’t get re-elected unanimously, then whoever voted against him needs to get their head examined.”
Giuliani (left) was executive director of the White House Task Force for the 2026 World Cup. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Giuliani also quipped that FIFA “might need a Save FIFA Act” in a similar way to Trump’s ‘SAVE America Act’, which, if passed, would require Americans to provide ID and proof of citizenship to vote in elections.
The former executive director’s support for Infantino follows on from Trump’s Truth Social post on Monday evening, where he said it would be a “terrible mistake” for football’s leaders to oust the embattled 56-year-old.
“Fifa would be making a terrible mistake if, for any reason, they even considered replacing president Gianni Infantino,” Trump’s post read. “He is fantastic, having just presided over the most successful World Cup, by four times, ever presented. If he is gone, it will never be as successful or profitable again.”
Giuliani, like Trump previously, said he was not aware of the FFE proposal before it was reported in the media and called for Infantino’s critics to take a step back and to instead assess his full “body of work”.
He also said he has spoken to Infantino since the fallout and says he has a “good plan over the next few months into March of next year to get re-elected for a third and final term”.
“Look, we’re all human beings, and I think Gianni has made his statement on it recently, but I think it’s one of those things where people have looked and sports has become monetised and commercialised,” Giuliani says of the FFE plan.
“I would just say that you have got to look at Gianni’s full body of work and to also realise that he’s always trying to improve his organisation, and I think that’s the thing.
“Just because you’re always trying to improve doesn’t mean that you’re not going to take a misstep here or there, right? As a human being, it happens, but I would look at the body of work and say this is the guy I’d want leading.”
