THE INFANTINO ERA
Power, Ambition, and the Fight to Remake FIFABy Marcus J. Holloway
Length2h 20m
About this audiobook
He was, for most of his career, the man nobody watching football actually knew: the besuited lawyer who appeared once a year to pull team names from a velvet bag at the Champions League draw. Then, in the space of a few dramatic months in 2015 and 2016, an institution in freefall handed him the most powerful job in world sport.
This is the full, unauthorized story of Gianni Infantino, from a childhood in the Swiss Alps as the son of Italian immigrants, through sixteen quiet years building expertise inside European football's governing body, to the night in Zurich when a placeholder candidacy became a stunning, contested victory for the presidency of FIFA.
It is also the story of what he built once he got there. Billions in new revenue. A World Cup expanded to the largest in history, jointly hosted across three nations. Development funding that reached every corner of the football world. And, running alongside every one of those achievements, a mounting list of serious controversies: a Human Rights Watch report documenting worker deaths connected to World Cup construction in Qatar, a ticket pricing backlash that priced out the sport's traditional fans, a Peace Prize awarded to a sitting American president that drew formal scrutiny from the International Olympic Committee, and a decade old legal battle with his own former mentor that resurfaced, with pointed timing, just days before the biggest tournament of his career.
Drawing on court filings, investigative reporting, and the public record, this biography refuses to offer a tidy verdict on a man whose story has not yet finished being written. It weighs genuine institutional achievement against genuine, documented human cost, and asks the question at the heart of modern global sport: when an organization grows larger, richer, and more powerful, who actually pays for that growth, and who decides whether it was worth it.
Perfect for readers of sports business, institutional power, and investigative political biography who want the full picture, not the press release.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Biography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Foreword
3Acknowledgements
4Introduction: The Infantino Era
5Chapter One: The Boy from Brig
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6Chapter Two: The Making of a Sports Lawyer
7Chapter Three: Platini’s Right-Hand Man
8Chapter Four: Financial Fair Play and the Business of Football
9Chapter Five: Expanding the Game
10Chapter Six: The Collapse of the Blatter Era
11Chapter Seven: The Upset Election
12Chapter Eight: Taking the Reins
13Chapter Nine: Football and the World Stage
14Chapter Ten: Qatar and the Price of Growth
15Chapter Eleven: Re-election and Consolidation
16Chapter Twelve: The 48-Team World Cup
17Chapter Thirteen: Ticket Prices and the Ordinary Fan
18Chapter Fourteen: The Trump Connection
19Chapter Fifteen: Platini’s Reckoning
20Chapter Sixteen: The Machinery of Modern FIFA
21Chapter Seventeen: Reformer or Operator
22Chapter Eighteen: Conclusion, The Man and the Institution
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