Tariq Panja
@tariqpanja.bsky.social
⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️tariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|
A parallel universe
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A parallel universe
Infantino on Trump: He says what he thinks, he says what many people think as well but maybe don’t dare to say and maybe that’s why he’s so successful”
More: “I think we should all support what he’s doing because I think he’s doing pretty good.”
More: “I think we should all support what he’s doing because I think he’s doing pretty good.”
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Infantino on Trump: He says what he thinks, he says what many people think as well but maybe don’t dare to say and maybe that’s why he’s so successful”
More: “I think we should all support what he’s doing because I think he’s doing pretty good.”
More: “I think we should all support what he’s doing because I think he’s doing pretty good.”
This is extraordinary.
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is extraordinary.
The FIFA Council, its governing board, were not given a say over this peace award. It is purely a Gianni Infantino innovation and he will decide who gets it. Amazing how a decade after a major corruption scandal nearly ended FIFA, this is how FIFA runs now. Such a concentration of power.
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The FIFA Council, its governing board, were not given a say over this peace award. It is purely a Gianni Infantino innovation and he will decide who gets it. Amazing how a decade after a major corruption scandal nearly ended FIFA, this is how FIFA runs now. Such a concentration of power.
Infantino on stage at the Miami Business Forum right now telling audience the biggest thing his parents taught him was to “have dignity in everything you do.” 😬
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Infantino on stage at the Miami Business Forum right now telling audience the biggest thing his parents taught him was to “have dignity in everything you do.” 😬
*Man City deny the allegations.
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
*Man City deny the allegations.
Apparent benefits to Qatar and Saudi Arabia come a year after the two countries successfully proposed to remove term limits for the Asian football confederation’s leaders, including its president Sheikh Salman. Only Australia abstained from vote. UEFA had similar outcome around same time.
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Apparent benefits to Qatar and Saudi Arabia come a year after the two countries successfully proposed to remove term limits for the Asian football confederation’s leaders, including its president Sheikh Salman. Only Australia abstained from vote. UEFA had similar outcome around same time.
Through incompetence or ignorance, the Asian Football Confederation, at the centre of this mess, has just appointed an Australian referee for the UAE-Iraq game. Must have slipped their mind that Iraq has an Australian coach.
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Through incompetence or ignorance, the Asian Football Confederation, at the centre of this mess, has just appointed an Australian referee for the UAE-Iraq game. Must have slipped their mind that Iraq has an Australian coach.