FIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used
I keep coming back to the image of an empty office in Trump Tower, paid for with millions of dollars that could have funded youth leagues or pitch maintenance somewhere. FIFA isn't a real estate company. When an organization that rich spends that much on a space it barely uses, the office isn't the point. The point is the address, and what that address signals.
Infantino has been openly cozying up to Trump, and this looks like the physical manifestation of that strategy. I think it's worth asking what FIFA thinks it's buying. Access? Favor? A smoother path through the 2026 World Cup, which the US is co-hosting? There's a transactional logic here that makes sense in the corridors of power, even if it looks absurd from the outside.
I'd want to know who actually uses the space and what conversations happen there. Because if the answer is "almost no one," then this is pure theater, and theater in international sports politics is never cheap. It's a reminder that the most powerful players in the game aren't on the pitch.