FIFA President rejects $2 million pay proposal

By Daily Sports on May 30, 2016

FIFA's recently elected President Gianni Infantino told its governing council a salary offer made to him by the soccer group’s compensation committee was “insulting,” according to report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The newspaper’s report, based on the leak of a recording of a board meeting held before the 211-member FIFA Congress in Mexico City, bring renewed focus on Infantino’s governing style. The former European soccer administrator unexpectedly found himself in soccer’s top job in the wake of criminal indictments issued last year against some of the sport's top leaders by U.S. authorities.

Infantino has been under pressure since the May 13 Mexico meeting, his first as FIFA leader after his election in February. Just a day later, FIFA compliance head Domenico Scala quit, saying governing changes promoted by Infantino imperiled efforts to eliminate corruption.

Scala was on the committee that proposed Infantino’s salary. The 45-year-old was offered $2 million a year, according to its former ethics adviser Mark Pieth. The figure is less than the $3 million base salary Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter earned in the year before he was ousted.

“I did not accept the proposal,” Infantino told the council, according to the Germany daily, known as FAZ. “It was a proposal I found insulting.”

A FIFA statement on Saturday reaffirmed a promise made by Infantino that he’d disclose his salary once an agreement was reached, declining to comment further. Infantino’s staff didn't make him available for an interview. The FIFA president is at Champions League final in Milan.

Scala and Infantino had a troubled relationship and, according to newspaper, the new FIFA president discussed ways to remove him, including getting a member organisation to proposal his dismissal and seek a vote by the Congress. In the end, the Congress decided on the statute change that expanded the power of the ruling council to hire and fire its independent oversight committees. Scala walked of the Congress before the vote.

“We can’t operate this way,” British council member David Gill said during the council meeting, according to FAZ. “We can’t dismiss people without a piece of paper and facts.”

Gill declined to comment on the events of the meeting. Scala declined to comment. FIFA said that the decision to change the rules that prompted Scala to resign was made to allow vacant positions to be filled.

“Any allegation that this decision would be the result of a ‘plot’ is ludicrous,” FIFA said in the statement. (Bloomberg)

•Photo shows FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 30, 2016


 

You may also like...
World Cup playoff: Ghana in search of star...

Rohr sends Francis Uzoho personal trainer

Rashford, Greenwood Back Training Ahead Of Brighton Clash...

Everton to sign Barca's Digne

Okaka reveals reason why his family left Nigeria...

Bayelsa Golf Course Inaugurated, Hosts Championship

 

Latest News CAF awards: Ajibade, Nnadozie, Edo Queens bag nominations Lagos SWAN, PAACC Hold SWAN Day At Golfview Hotels, Ikeja Crisis looms as Eagles’ form raises AFCON, W’Cup concerns Ex-Nigerian Super Falcons player handcuffed, children assaulted as police storm Anambra Football Academy Sports NFF, teammates console Nwabali on father’s death Abia Govt hails Nigeria Olympic Committee over staging an admin course in Umuahia Libya deliver Eagles 2025 AFCON ticket Eagles battle Cheetahs for 2025 AFCON ticket Yellow Greens gear up for T20 W’Cup qualifiers Tyson tips Fury to beat Joshua Sadiq absent as 22 Eagles train in Abidjan Eagles’ striking trio hot for Cheetahs, Amavubi clashes

 

Most Read Rangers International going, going . . . (55,163 views) Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (46,307 views) Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (44,370 views) Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (44,015 views) Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (43,948 views) Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (43,904 views) Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (43,742 views) NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (43,311 views) Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (42,366 views) Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (41,054 views) Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (39,506 views) John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (38,931 views)

 

Phone numbers

Tel: +234(0)8066020976
+234(0)8055068145
+234(0)7013416146
+234(0)8094272884

Email addresses

info@dailysportsng.com
support@dailysportsng.com
publisher@dailysportsng.com

Office address

No 3, Adetoun Close, Off College Road, Ogba, Ikeja Lagos.
Website: www.dailysportsng.com

Social Media