UEFA confirms it paid Infantino's alleged mistress — SkimNews
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- UEFA confirmed it paid a departure sum plus MBA fees at a local business school to the individual, calling the payment compliant with staff regulations at the time but noting those rules have been tightened since 2016.
- FIFA released a statement calling the allegations "categorically untrue" and "defamatory," with Infantino personally denying them.
- FIFA asserted that no employee at either UEFA or FIFA has ever raised a complaint about Infantino's behavior, saying there was never an incident.
- According to The Telegraph, which broke the story, the alleged payment was a six-figure sum made to a woman allegedly in a relationship with Infantino during his tenure as UEFA general secretary.
- Infantino worked at UEFA from 2000 to 2016 before taking up his current role as FIFA president.
Why it matters: UEFA's confirmation gives the allegation institutional weight — it is no longer just a Telegraph report but acknowledged by Infantino's former employer. UEFA's defense rests entirely on procedural compliance ("within old regulations"), not a denial that the payment happened, which shifts scrutiny from whether it occurred to whether the woman's departure was genuinely voluntary and what UEFA's old severance rules actually permitted.
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