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For years, Josimar has led the pack in Fifa coverage – breaking ground with reporting on the plight of migrant workers in Qatar, culminating in a special World Cup edition that profiled 32 migrant workers in Doha. Now the focus has turned to a World Cup in Trump’s America and, further down the line, in Mohammed Bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia, where migrant workers are already subjected to appalling abuse on the ground in Neom, preparing for the 2034 tournament which Gianni Infantino imposed on world football.
Josimar’s scrutiny hasn’t spared the Fifa president. Michel Platini’s former right-hand man presented himself as a reformer when vying for the Fifa presidency in 2016. But nine years on from his ascent to the Fifa throne, he stands accused of being worse than his predecessor Sepp Blatter. He has courted ‘strongmen’ and dictators all over the world, and been accused of using their methods. He has dismantled Fifa’s system of internal checks and balances, centralised control, crushed potential opponents and ensured his re-election – twice, unopposed, by acclamation – by, on one hand, lavishing money to compliant member associations and, on the other, punishing those which didn’t toe his line.
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Josimar has exposed Fifa’s greenwashing of the Qatar World Cup and revealed how Infantino’s influence spreads so deep into African football he’s been able to handpick the current president of its confederation. Josimar has detailed Infantino’s environmental hypocrisy—jetting around the world on a Qatari private jet while rolling out the green card. Fifa, Josimar uncovered, foots the bill for his rent and his daughter’s school fees. Under his watch, Fifa’s workplace culture has turned toxic.
For now, Infantino gets away with it. But is he the right man to lead the global game? That’s the question Josimar challenges you to consider—and why we need your support to keep holding football’s most powerful officials accountable.
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