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this should’ve been the beginning of the end for infantino. the fifa/eafc game is the most popular sports franchise in the world, for a “nonprofit” whose mission statement is to ‘globalize and popularize’ football, getting $150m for the game to literally be called ‘FIFA’ is the deal of the century.

Treblig 🇺🇦@camtreblig.bsky.social · 2d ago

An underrated cause of Infantino’s problems is him playing silly buggers with EA Sports: FIFA got $150m a year just to let EA use the name on a game. Literally free money. But Gianni got greedy and wanted more, EA called his bluff and walked away. Since then he’s been trying to make up the shortfall