World Soccer

A clumsy, chaotic Caribbean coup

In one corner, you have Gianni Infantino: president of the billion dollar world governing football body, FIFA. In the other, a recently retired school teacher, William Wallace, whose organisation, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), is functionally bankrupt.

If this were boxing, it would be difficult to get this supposed mismatch sanctioned. And yet, six months after FIFA threw the first blow by declaring that Wallace had been removed as president – via the Infantino-headed Bureau of the FIFA Council – the

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