Exclusive: FIFA president Gianni Infantino talks about how he's trying to clean up football | MUK Sports

FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar. Few organizations have been as tarnished by the avalanche of dreck and downright criminality as FIFA, which has become the sport's most (in)famous four-letter word. That stench of corruption hung heavy in the air when Gianni Infantino was elected FIFA president on February 26, 2016 and it's still there today. Indeed, cleaning up football was a theme that ran throughout an hour-long conversation I had with Infantino at FIFA Headquarters in Zurich last month. "It has been the most difficult part...
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