The FIFA President is ashamed of his behavior at Pele’s funeral

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Infantino has yet to outline the details of his latest vision, a global network of stadiums bearing Pele’s name. We wish him all the best in getting this idea over the line in Argentina. It bears the mark of the Blue Sky Thinking Exercise deviated. Remember, there are no bad ideas! But maybe let’s study this a little more?

Should his organization decide to move forward with the Peleverse, you can be sure the UK version will fit into Fifa’s proud tradition of synergistic multi-platform partnerships: ‘Welcome to Halifax and ‘PeleXTheShay’. approved, you’ll be asked to pour it into a bottle of Coke Zero.”

Before announcing the layout of his stadium, Infantino paid a necessarily nice tribute to Pele, saying: “It was a great privilege to meet Pele on several occasions – he was a wonderful human being with a big heart.” Unfortunately, this sounded like comedian Lemmy’s usual reaction to the death of any celebrity, mocking the performative insanity of mourning, as he claims to have met the deceased recently “at a charity event. They were surprisingly down-to-earth and very funny.”

Infantino’s oft-repeated mission statement is to make football truly global. These handy pleas for global unity are admirable. On the one hand, they’re as cliched as We Are The World, Michael Jackson’s misguided answer to Band Aid.

“Football unites the world,” is the name of one of FIFA’s armband campaigns in Qatar. Infantino is making good progress himself here because the world has come to a unanimous conclusion about it: It’s a lot like any other company with an Instagram account.

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