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Gianni Infantino wrestles with Uefa and clubs | Sport

October 29 2018, 12:01am, The Times

It might have been lost amid a busy Champions League week and the build-up to the Clasico, but on Friday, at the Fifa council meeting in Rwanda, world football avoided accelerating towards a cliff edge that would change the game for ever. It took the threat of a walkout and Uefa and Europe’s leading clubs throwing their weight behind the International Champions Cup (ICC), a summer competition played mainly in the United States, to scupper Fifa’s plans of forcing through a summer Club World Cup and a global version of the Nations League, fuelled by the promise of £19.5 billion over 12 years, which would have more than doubled the organisation’s revenue.

In the end, a last-ditch compromise was reached. The Fifa council voted to…

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