MANAMA. — Gianni Infantino slammed “fake news” and “alternative facts” surrounding FIFA and insisted football’s scandal-ridden governing body had changed in an impassioned speech to its annual congress in Bahrain yesterday.Fifteen months after being elected as president to bring forward wholesale change to a disgraced organisation, Infantino also claimed FIFA’s corruption crisis was over and would never happen again.
The Congress confirmed that the two men responsible for rooting out corruption in the world game — Hans-Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbely — would be replaced. — AFP.



