As football’s elite gathered in the hospitality seating at the MetLife Stadium in New York to watch Spain take on Argentina in this month’s World Cup final, one FIFA luminary was conspicuous in his absence.
Aleksander Ceferin holds the position of vice president of football’s international governing body as well as that of president of UEFA. But rather than watch the tie and see one of his own federations lift the trophy, the Slovenian executive pointedly snubbed the event – reportedly over FIFA’s controversial decision to suspend US star Folarin Balogun’s red card.
In the wake of Balogun’s seemingly Donald Trump-influenced amnesty,
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