How will he survive? Fifa president Gianni Infantino says salary less than US$2m a year
He has not yet agreed to terms but has said his salary “will be less than the two million francs (US$2 million) people have speculated about”
Fifa president Gianni Infantino said that he will make less than $2 million a year, well below the salary of his disgraced predecessor Sepp Blatter.
Infantino has not yet agreed to terms with Fifa, but speaking to Switzerland’s Blick newspaper, he said his salary “will be less than the two million francs ($2 million) people have speculated about.”
Blatter, who was mired in scandal before being banned from Fifa, made US$3.6 million in 2015.
Infantino described past dealings with Fifa’s compensation committee as “insulting” and “completely arbitrary.”
During the first two months of Infantino’s tenure, which began in February, the compensation committee included former Fifa audit and compliance chief Domenico Scala, who has emerged as a fierce critic of world football’s new president.
Scala dramatically quit Fifa in May after accusing Infantino of trying to compromise the organisation’s independent committees and acting with an authoritarian streak.