Infantino, Gianni

FIFA and EA Sports End Video Game Partnership

Those games, though, will not offer the same sort of match simulations devotees of the EA Sports version have come to know. For that, consumers will be asked to wait until 2024, when FIFA says it will launch a rival soccer simulation game. “I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has […]

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Russia, Soccer and a Line Drawn Too Late

Everton and Chelsea, for example, have significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs who were named by a British lawmaker this week as suitable targets for sanctions; or Manchester United, studiously quiet on its sponsorship deal with Aeroflot, the state-backed Russian airline, until suddenly dropping it Friday. Still, what do you expect, when the very bodies […]

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Inside the FIFA Legends, Questions of Power and Process

It was at the end of that meeting, the woman said, as she and Macedo left a conference room, that Macedo cupped her buttocks with one hand and then leaned in and whispered a provocative remark about her body. “For me,” the woman said, “that was one of the worst days.” There were no witnesses […]

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