Why Nordic federations are leading UEFA's pushback against Gianni Infantino

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·5 September 2026

Why Nordic federations are leading UEFA's pushback against Gianni Infantino

Nordic federations are leading UEFA's pushback against the governance methods of FIFA president Gianni Infantino. According to L'Équipe, this prominence is no accident.

Infantino is facing mounting distrust from several European federations.

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The backdrop traces to three September 2016, when Aleksander Ceferin, then head of the Slovenian federation, visited Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, during his campaign for the UEFA presidency.

A criminal and commercial lawyer, he would be elected less than two weeks later, on 14 September in Athens, Greece, to lead UEFA.

At that stage, he set out the foundations of his candidacy.

Source: L'Équipe

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