FIFA President Gianni Infantino and US president Donald Trump pose during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh last week. Photograph: Yoan Valat/AFP via Getty Images
Along the raised dais in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders flanked US president Donald Trump to mark the ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, one man stood out who was neither head of government nor Arab royalty.
Gianni Infantino, president of global soccer’s governing body, Fifa, was the only sports official at Monday’s summit and the only dignitary without a political role. He posed for photos with Trump and with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt. He promised to help reconstruct sports fields destroyed in Gaza and said he travelled to Egypt at Trump’s invitation.
“It’s something that is really important for Fifa to be here,” Infantino said on Instagram in a polished highli
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