Uefa confronts Infantino: 42 questions – including on Trump deals

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42 questions, a tight deadline: The European football union (Uefa) is taking a confrontational course with FIFA President Gianni Infantino. As Focus Panorama reports, Uefa has sent the official a 42-point questionnaire. Infantino must respond in writing by November 2 at the latest.

As the report reveals, the questions also include the topic of business relationships between FIFA and the family of US President Donald Trump. It is not clear from the report what specific business connections Uefa is addressing and what answers it expects. What is clear is that Uefa is thereby personally holding the most powerful official in world football to account – in writing, with a date, with a case number.

The move comes at a time when the relationship between Uefa and FIFA has been strained for some time. Overlaps and conflicts between the European association, based in Nyon, and the world federation in Zurich have repeatedly surfaced in recent years – not least over the question of who organizes international tournaments and what say the national associations have. With the questionnaire, Uefa is visibly tightening the pressure: not over individual stadium issues, but over personnel transparency.

What happens if Infantino lets the deadline pass or the answers fail to convince is not public. Neither Uefa nor FIFA have commented on possible consequences. So what hangs in the air is not just a questionnaire, but also the question of how much independent weight Uefa still attributes to the FIFA president in this conflict – and whether the questionnaire is mainly for documentation purposes or the prelude to further steps.