Infantino rejects greed claims

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has accused Domenico Scala of “playground” behaviour and shot down accusations of personal greed.

In an interview with Swiss newspaper Le Matin, Infantino dismissed suggestions he was seeking more than 2m Swiss francs (£1.4m) in salary, and claimed he had found himself at the heart of a “witch trial”.

Infantino’s first FIFA congress as president was tarnished last month when audit and compliance committee chairman Scala, a key figure in FIFA’s attempts to recover from last year’s scandals, stormed out of the meeting in Mexico City.

The Swiss-Italian businessman was furious at a late change Infantino made to the rulebook which gives his inner circle, the FIFA council, unprecedented control over the key committees to recruit and dismiss members.

Within 24 hours, Scala had resigned, becoming only the latest independent voice to leave FIFA in frustration in recent years.

“I would have found it a bit more elegant if he had informed me beforehand,” Infantino said in the newspaper interview. “But obviously he was rather proud of his little piece of theatre.”

Infantino went on to label it “infantile behaviour that belongs in the playground” and said of the episode: “It makes me part of a witch trial.”

Scala said in a May 14 resignation statement …

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