EU sports commissioner slams FIFA's 'poor governance' as ethics complaint mounts against Infantino

As the 2026 World Cup approaches, a quiet but consequential struggle over who football truly belongs to has broken into the open. The European Union's sports commissioner, Glenn Micallef, has placed FIFA's aborted plan to sell a fifth of its commercial rights to private investors within a broader pattern of governance failure — one in which a shared cultural institution is being treated as a divisible asset. With ethics complaints, competition law inquiries, and the weight of over 100,000 signatures pressing against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the question being asked in Brussels and beyo