{"id":73988,"date":"2026-08-08T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73988\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:30:37","slug":"infantino-denies-claims-uefa-paid-off-alleged-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73988\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino denies claims UEFA paid off alleged mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Infantino denies claims UEFA paid off alleged mistress\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRNUZFZASmQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInfantino denies claims UEFA paid off alleged mistress<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGianni Infantino has &#8220;strongly&#8221; denied that UEFA paid off an alleged mistress while he was the European football governing body&#8217;s general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph said the woman received a six-figure sum after the alleged relationship with Mr Infantino, the embattled FIFA president who is facing calls to quit over his plan to sell off a stake of the World Cup to private investors.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA told Sky News that a &#8220;departure payment&#8221; was made to a woman as well as &#8220;the payment of fees for an MBA course at a local business school&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/infantino-denies-uefa-paid-off-his-alleged-mistress-while-he-was-general-secretary-13570870<\/p>\n<p>#uefa #fifa #gianniinfantino #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infantino denies claims UEFA paid off alleged mistress Gianni Infantino has &#8220;strongly&#8221; denied that UEFA paid off an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[23443,2234,46862,2241,61183,57589,25291,18709,61184,31,1520,296,1194,2879,35106,23071,2236],"class_list":["post-73988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-allegations","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news","tag-football","tag-general-secretary","tag-gianni","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-infantino","tag-mistress","tag-news","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-the-daily-telegraph","tag-uefa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117059290553973886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}