FIFA Political Neutrality Faces Its First Real IOC Test

Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, whose neutrality pledge faces an IOC complaint over the Balogun-Trump call at World Cup 2026

Gianni Infantino has spent five weeks insisting FIFA is politically neutral. On July 9, a human rights group announced it is taking that claim to the International Olympic Committee, a body FIFA doesn’t control. FairSquare’s complaint didn’t start this month. The rights group first filed it with FIFA’s own Ethics Committee back in December 2025, … Read more