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Opinion: FIFA's Infantino Criticized for Not Awarding Cape Verde Victory in 0-0 Draw with Spain

Ray Ratto

2h ago· 5 min readenOpinion

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Summary

A scathing opinion piece criticizing FIFA president Gianni Infantino for failing to award Cape Verde a victory in their 0-0 draw against Spain, framed as a missed opportunity for redemption. The article argues Cape Verde deserved the win on merit and uses the incident to attack Infantino's character and FIFA's corruption.

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This was the moment when Gianni Infantino, the grubby little cash slag who runs FIFA, could have made himself a noble and even admirable human being

All he had to do was announce that Cape Verde's 0-0 draw with Spain (yeah, you read that right) was actually a win

he passed on it because he checked his Venmo and nothing new was in the queue

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This was the moment when Gianni Infantino, the grubby little cash slag who runs FIFA, could have made himself a noble and even admirable human being in the eyes of a world that absolutely knows he would lick an alley clean for 10 bucks. And of course, he

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