European football’s plated tip top collecting for Saturday’s Champions League last in Kiev will be more buzzing with interest than ordinary after Uefa’s open slapdown of the Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s push to railroad through another organization for the Club World Cup. Progressively compelling up to the knees in trouble will be Andrea Agnelli, fourth-age scion of the well known Fiat-and Juventus-establishing administration, administrator of Juve since 2010 and, since September, of the effective European Club Association (ECA).
Trim in his dim pinstripe suit, talking without a doubt at the Guardian workplaces this week while in London for an executive gathering of Fiat Chrysler – turnover €111bn a year ago – the 42-year-old Agnelli came to cover Infantino’s great arrangement. In any case, as he clarifies, it turns out to be certain that he sees this line as a negligible squall in a six-year mission towards his own vision, which numerous in football may discover all the more difficult, its aspiration no not as much as “a major undertaking in reshaping European football”.