Women’s football continues to be used as a pawn in Gianni Infantino’s Fifa tenure

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D espite not having been deemed worthy of more than a single mention in Fifa’s 25-page sales deck to its 211 member associations on its doomed proposal to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors, now very expensive waste paper, it was women’s football that had found itself on the frontline in the fight for the “soul of football”. Uefa’s statement that European national teams would not “participate in any Fifa competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this prop