
It's taken less than 80 days for Gianni Infantino's claim to be leading FIFA into a new era to be publicly undermined. Infantino was plunged into damage limitation mode on Saturday after a significant figure behind the clean-up of FIFA - independent compliance and audit chief Domenico Scala- quit with a stinging rebuke about the president's conduct. It left Friday's bold declaration by Infantino that FIFA's crisis had ended looking like his own premature ''Mission Accomplished'' moment.
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