Considered by many as the ideal successor to Gianni Infantino at the head of FIFA, Nasser al-Khelaïfi nevertheless retains a few opponents like Javier Tebas. The La Liga boss spoke to RMC this Wednesday, the opportunity for him to promote the Spanish championship (newly broadcast by DAZN And Disney+ in France) and to discuss other current topics in European football, such as the FIFA presidential elections in 2027.
In recent days, Javier Tebas had called on Gianni Infantino to resign from his post following his controversial project to create a commercial company in order to sell part of the World Cup (the project has since been abandoned). Asked about the possibility of seeing the boss of PSG succeed the Italian-Swiss at the head of the world football body, the sulphurous Spanish leader rejected this idea. And by putting the shapes.
“He designs an elitist model that I do not share”
“I believe that Nasser will be the best president of PSG. There, he would be a bad president of Fifacriticizes Tebas. I don’t like his conception (of football) and he doesn’t work in the model of European football to which I aspire. In addition, he is president of the European Football Clubs (EFC), there are 800 clubs in this association and no one gives their opinion apart from a tiny minority of which he is a part. He therefore designs an elitist model that I do not share.»
A pillar of European football thanks to PSG and the EFC of which he is president, Nasser al-Khelaïfi would nevertheless have the support of several leaders of UEFA and European federations to run for the head of FIFA in 2027. But his spokespersons had affirmed in recent days that he had no intention of doing so: “Mr. Al-Khelaifi has absolutely no ambition, no intention and no interest in this FIFA position nor in all this media hype; on the contrary, it will continue to support, discreetly and constructively, all the institutions of world and European football.»
